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Aubade

Philip Larkin

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1977
Pages
Pages 1

A man wakes at four in the morning to the plain fact of his own death, tries every consolation ever offered, watches none of them work, and gets up as the office day begins.

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
Aubade, Philip Larkin

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