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Last Line: Forgotten, as fulfilled
Variant Title(s): Poem: 783; Poem: 50


The Birds begun at Four o'clock -
Their period for Dawn -
A Music numerous as space -
But neighboring as Noon -


I could not count their Force -
Their Voices did expend
As Brook by Brook bestows itself
To multiply the Pond.


Their Witnesses were not -
Except occasional man -
In homely industry arrayed -
To overtake the Morn -


Nor was it for applause -
That I could ascertain -
But independent Ecstasy
Of Deity and Men -


By Six, the Flood had done -
No Tumult there had been
Of Dressing, or Departure -
And yet the Band was gone -


The Sun engrossed the East -
The Day controlled the World -
The Miracle that introduced
Forgotten, as fulfilled.






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