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The page pairs dawn and sunset as repeated messengers across a day.

The blank line makes the poem hinge on recurrence: morning tells once, evening tells twice. The doubled message at sunset gives the day a retrospective weight, as if its lesson grows clearer by ending.

A diurnal couplet of warnings: 'Dawn tells / you once // Sunset tells / you twice.' The day speaks twice as urgently at its close, the doubling weighting the end of light over its beginning.