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BEYOND (2) by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: HOW MANY LARKS ARE SOARING
Last Line: WERE EARTH'S DIVINEST MELODY.
Subject(s): BIRDS; LARKS; SKYLARKS;

How many larks are soaring --
How many voices loud --
Their songs of praise outpouring
Where distance, like a cloud,
Is stretched above us for a screen
Lest aught of heaven be heard or seen!

Ah, should one note prevailing,
A momentary glow,
Love's meteor light out-trailing,
Flash over us below,
Thenceforth the music of a sigh
Were earth's divinest melody.



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