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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 OPEN WINDOW
MY tower was grimly builded,With many a bolt and bar,"And here," I thought, "I will keep my lifeFrom the bitter world afar."
Dark and chill was the stony floor,Where never a sunbeam lay,And the mould crept up on the dreary wall,With its ghost touch, day by day.
One morn, in my sullen musings,A flutter and cry I heard;And close at the rusty casementThere clung a frightened bird.
Then back I flung the shutterThat was never before undone,
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And I kept till its wings were restedThe little weary one.
But in through the open window,Which I had forgot to close,There had burst a gush of sunshineAnd a summer scent of rose.
For all the while I had burrowedThere in my dingy tower,Lo! the birds had sung and the leaves had dancedFrom hour to sunny hour.
And such balm and warmth and beautyCame drifting in since then,That the window still stands openAnd shall never be shut again.
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