Margaret Forbes's Cock-Crow (Click for RY Deshpande's & Sri Aurobindo's comments.)

A cock cries shrill in the dark
again and yet again.
What has he seen that I in my
lethargy have not seen?
What Sound heard urgent along
the ridges of the world?
Sun-anticipations, filaments unfurled
Of a New Day?... Tongue of God
in a bird,
Dagger of Dawn, again and yet again
Pierce, till all men have heard!

1951