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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LIFE-FORCE, by RHYS CARPENTER Poet's Biography
First Line: Against the sun I saw a bird
Last Line: Against the sun.
Subject(s): Birds; Life; Sun
First Line: Against the sun I saw a bird
Last Line: Against the sun.
Subject(s): Birds; Life; Sun
AGAINST the sun I saw a bird,
Brown body, beating wings of dun,
And carolling a song unheard
Against the sun.
Through ocean, earth, and ether run
The forces of a hidden word
Reverberant ere earth begun,
The impulse of a flood unstirred,
Divisionless, eternal, one
With that far singing of a bird
Against the sun.
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