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"Hermione and other poems [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAP5349.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.
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THE SINGER
SILLY bird!When his mate is near,Not a note of singing shall you hear.Take his little love away,Half the livelong dayWill his tune be heard—Silly bird!
Sunny daysSilent basks he in the light,Little sybarite!But when all the roomDarkens in the gloom,And the rainPours and pours along the pane,He is bent(Ah, the small inconsequent!)On defying all the weather;
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Rain and cloud and storm togetherNaught to him,Singing like the seraphim.
So we know a poet's ways:Sunny days,Silent heIn his fine serenity;But if winds are loud,He will pipe beneath the cloud;And if one is far away,Sings his heart out, as to say,—"It may beShe will hear and come to me."
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