Songs of Travel and Other Verses/The morning drum-call on my eager ear

Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The morning drum-call on my eager ear
1932213Songs of Travel and Other Verses — The morning drum-call on my eager ear1896Robert Louis Stevenson

XXI

The morning drum-call on my eager ear
Thrills unforgotten yet; the morning dew
Lies yet undried along my field of noon.


But now I pause at whiles in what I do,
And count the bell, and tremble lest I hear
(My work untrimmed) the sunset gun too soon.