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LESBIA by JAMES STEPHENS

First Line: SWEET / AND DELICATE / AND RARE
Last Line: -- AT THE END OF THE BOUGH!
Subject(s): FLIGHT; FLYING;

Sweet,
And delicate,
And rare,

At the end
Of a wind-blown fragrant bough,
The apple swings!

If I,
Who fly no more,
Had wings!

Or if
My wizardry
Knew how!

I'd wing
To where that sweetness swings,
-- At the end of the bough!



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