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THE INEXPRESSIBLE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: THINKING OF MY CAGED BIRDS INDOORS
Last Line: LIGHTEN AND THUNDER THROUGH THE WORLD!
Subject(s): PASSION;
Thinking of my caged birds indoors,
My books, whose music serves my will;
Which, when I bid them sing, will sing,
And when I sing myself are still;

And that my scent is drops of ink,
Which, were my song as great as I,
Would sweeten man till he was dust,
And make the world one Araby;

Thinking how my hot passions make
Strong floods of shallows that run cold --
Oh how I burn to make my dreams
Lighten and thunder through the world!



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