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COURAGE by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY

First Line: INTO A BROWN WOOD FLEW A BROWN BIRD
Last Line: AND WHISTLED MERRILY.
Subject(s): BIRDS;
Into a brown wood flew a brown bird
In the winter time:
The sky was dark with snow unfallen,
The leaves were bent with rime.

Once north he flew, once south he flew,
He perched in a naked tree.
He looked into the dreary dusk
And whistled merrily.



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