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First Line: There is a small bird cowering in the dark
Last Line: In the dark!
Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Larks; Skylarks


There is a small bird cowering in the dark;
His wing is broken, he will no more sing;
He will not fly, nor sing again, the lark
With a broken wing!

The bird that cowers with a broken wing
Is all alone -- His mate has gone away:
In the morrow, in the sun, in the field, his mate will sing
Her wonted lay.

In the dew, in the limpid dawn, in the ray
Of the sun, she'll sing the comrade gone
Who will not cheer a sunny day
Again for any one.

All panic looks and listens with his eyes!
He is all fear! He is no more a lark!
Only the heart dares stir of him that lies
In the dark!





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