Poem by Edward Thomas

Cock-Crow

OUT of the wood of thoughts that grows by night
To be cut down by the sharp ax of light,--
Out of the night, two cocks together crow,
Cleaving the darkness with a silver blow:
And brought before my eyes twin trumpeters stand,
Heralds of splendor, one at either hand,
Each facing each as in a coat of arms:--
The milkers lace their boots up at the farms. 

1. The Green Roads
2. What Shall I Give?
3. The Gallows
4. “Home”
5. The Clouds That Are So Light

Robert Herrick Cock-Crow ("Bell-man of night, if I about shall go")

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