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BEAUTIFUL WINGS by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY

First Line: BEAUTIFUL WINGS THAT BEAT THE VOID
Last Line: BUILDS HEAVEN OVERHEAD.
Subject(s): BUTTERFLIES; INSECTS; POETRY & POETS; BUGS;

BEAUTIFUL wings that beat the void,
At every stroke a deathless song,
A joy embodied, a grief destroyed, --
Mortal, you live not long.

But in the mind you still shall soar
O'er him whom you leave dead;
The poet, buried evermore,
Builds heaven overhead.



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