Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: From Dawn to Noon (Delaware corrected copy)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1873
Type of Manuscript: corrected copy manuscript
Scribe: DGR
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Manuscript Addition: LXXX / Change & Fate
Editorial Description: DGR's note in upper right corner indicating the placement of the sonnet in his
1881 edition
- As the child knows not if his mother's face
- Be fair; nor of his elders yet can deem
- What each most is; but as of hill or stream
- At dawn, the all glimmering life surrounds his place:
- Who yet, tow'rd noon of his half-weary race,
- Pausing awhile beneath the high sun-beam
- And gazing steadily back,—as through a dream,
- In things long past new features now can trace:—
- Even so the Thought that knows its is at length fullgrown
- 10Turns back to note the distant sun-smit paths, so all grey
- And marvellous once, where first it walked alone
- And haply doubts, amid the unblenching day,
- Which most or least availed impelled its onward way,—
- Those unknown things or these things overknown.
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