Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BARBARIANS, by JAMES STEPHENS


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First Line: I pause beside the stream, and hear
Last Line: Asks am I intelligent!
Subject(s): Ignorance; Men; Dullness; Stupdity


I pause beside the stream, and hear
The waters talking on the way;
If I had a proper ear
I could tell you what they say!

Yon lovely tree against the sky,
Which the sun first rests upon,
Has a message for my eye;
If I had a proper one!

On the golden heath a wind,
Whispered to me as I stood;
If I had a proper mind
I could answer, so I could!

I am deaf and dumb and blind!
No reply can I invent
When a stream, a tree, a wind,
Asks am I intelligent!





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