Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967). The Old Huntsman and Other Poems. 1918.

60. Daybreak in a Garden

I HEARD the farm cocks crowing, loud, and faint, and thin,

When hooded night was going and one clear planet winked:

I heard shrill notes begin down the spired wood distinct,

When cloudy shoals were chinked and gilt with fires of day.

White-misted was the weald; the lawns were silver-grey;

The lark his lonely field for heaven had forsaken;

And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of may,

And touched the nodding peony-flowers to bid them waken.