To-Day

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To-Day

Plenipotentiary Dawn, unwrapping royal gift,
  Black-overcloaked, red-robed, stern, transitory,
A day confers. Death-dusty, knees I bend, hands lift
  The awful dowry to accept: arbitrament, doom, glory.

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Title: Day and Night

Author: Ursula Bethell

Publication details: The Caxton Press, 1939, Christchurch

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

This text is the subject of: National Library of New Zealand

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