At Dawn

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Far off I heard dark waters rush;
  The sky was cold; the dawn broke green;
  And wrapped in twilight and strange hush
  The gray wind moaned between.

  A voice rang through the House of Sleep,
  And through its halls there went a tread;
  Mysterious raiment seemed to sweep
  Around the pallid dead.

  And then I knew that I had died,
  I, who had suffered so and sinned--
  And 't was myself I stood beside
  In the wild dawn and wind.

© Madison Julius Cawein