Poems of Philip Henry Savage / Philip Henry Savage [electronic text]
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Title
Poems of Philip Henry Savage / Philip Henry Savage [electronic text]
Author
Savage, Philip Henry, 1868-1899
Publication
Boston: Small, Maynard, and Company
1900
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Pages
VI
THE SPARROW
THE morning lay divinely brightAcross near field and distant height.From his high tower the influent sunControlled the shifting tides of air,Which first in flow would lightly run,Then fall in ebb of radiance rare.
One sparrow on an elm-tree highConceived the day as fair as I.Midway the high bank of the treeHe sat upon a beakèd branch,And poured into the engulfing seaHis music's slender avalanche.
His pipe was sharp, his numbers few,And caught no ear but me and you.Yet forth upon his promontoryHe stood in the wide sea of air,And bore his witness to the gloryWith all the heart a thrush might dare.
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