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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WILD GEESE, by FREDERICK PETERSON
First Line: How oft against the sunset sky or moon
Last Line: Symbol of coming springs!
Subject(s): Geese; Spring
First Line: How oft against the sunset sky or moon
Last Line: Symbol of coming springs!
Subject(s): Geese; Spring
HOW oft against the sunset sky or moon
I watched that moving zig-zag of spread wings
In unforgotten Autumns gone too soon,
In unforgotten Springs!
Creatures of desolation, far they fly,
Above all lands bound by the curling foam;
In misty fens, wild moors and trackless sky
These wild things have their home.
They know the tundra of Siberian coasts,
And tropic marshes by the Indian seas;
They know the clouds and night and starry hosts
From Crux to Pleiades.
Dark flying rune against the western glow—
It tells the sweep and loneliness of things,
Symbol of Autumns vanished long ago.
Symbol of coming Springs!
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