Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN A MUSEUM, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: Here's the mould of a musical bird long passed from light
Last Line: In the full-fugued song of the universe unending.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


I

HERE'S the mould of a musical bird long passed from light,
Which over the earth before man came was winging;
There's a contralto voice I heard last night,
That lodges in me still with its sweet singing.

II

Such a dream is Time that the coo of this ancient bird
Has perished not, but is blent, or will be blending
Mid visionless wilds of space with the voice that I heard,
In the full-fugued song of the universe unending.






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