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First Line: Not your least glory, many-gloried wren
Last Line: With loud-tongued gossip of an age of gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Birds


Suggested by an Excellent Article, "Starlings in London," by Mr. Eric Parker, "Spectator," March
6th, 1926.

NOT your least glory, many-gloried Wren,
Springs from these birds, that to your immense Dome
When eve grows glassy cold and clear, come home
From fallow and blue fen;
Each flying to his mansion overhead,
The guest of genius, sure of man at last,
Though maelstrom roars and wild light volleys vast,
Each calm and glad abed.

Never was covenant nor entente like this,
Which still shall gather confidence and joy;
Man's city chosen the birds' metropolis,
Whole myriads taken with a fair decoy!
Through tree and chimney-top the news is told,
With loud-tongued gossip of an age of gold.





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