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THE TUNEFUL LITTLE BIRD YOU SEE CONFINED, by                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rapture so passing sweet and yet not die
Subject(s): Birds; Beauty


The tuneful little bird you see confined
Within a narrow cage, for many a day
Bewailed his loss and destiny unkind
In tones that filled his hearers with dismay.
But since he hath good proof of unto how
Gentle a tyranny he doth submit,
He sings, and in his tiny dwelling now
With pretty movements up and down doth flit,

Saying in his own language: "Verily,
I comprehend how beauty's dawn so fair
Sufficeth to keep sorrow far from me,
But marvel greatly how it is that I,
Feeding from such a lovely hand, can bear
Rapture so passing sweet and yet not die!"





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