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Show THE FLIGHT OF A BIRD. BT VILLI! W. CABTCrrrE. Do! Could yon ree tbii bripht world that I seel Quick rolling cloud unfold ibtir colon rare, Sonne and iuoee' tints, aa wild ith glee I tH-ur my .oul in aong out on tbe :r. Till t'e wiodi flter with the weigh- ther be". I dart down man 7 a bae brown, crnmbli g cliff. And k'tninio(r land- nch w th all tropic bljotn 1 I iiht th danliog Pk orTenerpffi-; and next I pierce with my abnll Toice the gloom That Ilea in Home round English Shelley's tomb. Sometimes I top in tome dnll flthlnR town; I see the 8-bers with their boatji by day Heeding tbelr oeta and skilt, and wnich the Barefooted children oo the ianii at play. Laughing and ringing by tb flaihi- g bay, Thn 1 fly farther iuLsnd, where ths hi ti Throngh Auinmn rains gleam barren and for- Wben full it ream rtuh to tarn thenoiiy mills, And rmy girU hnrry ihronph the cool wet morn To drive the cows or pick the rle harJ corn. The froit Ilea cold on many a northern Held H nose Kauty lrnita wer gnthered long ago; The rvU 'hat the stent- aonhlkuda iitjd Are safety honaed from ilriftiag iviad and snow, And the locked it reams no more with music flow. o I to tbe lands ot Summer, tinging, stray ; I feel the warm tooth etia about me shine As wearily I wing mT long, strange wy, Lrd by Mrontr Econts of.picy gunn md wine, To Migioo'a land of citron-dower anil viae. Then I leap up with one tnmnltnuj hout Of glee, defiant, ulrery -nd sirong; Tbe njipliog iangbter tricklrsall ab. nt. The wsy ti upward and (ho path long. And ibe whole heaven is troubling with my sing. Into soft Hrpths of snow-white cloud I dart ; Then all at once the tinted sky grow gray ; A stmiige. faini nujiboess gathers round my heart; A mddun clous must have obscured the day, A ad blind and lick 1 drift away away. |
