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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SIX MOVEMENTS; FOR MRS. EDWARD MACDOWELL: 2. HERMIT THRUSH, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography
First Line: It's hard to count what an air can do
Last Line: Don't even know now what the air or the wind did.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes
First Line: It's hard to count what an air can do
Last Line: Don't even know now what the air or the wind did.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes
It's hard to count what an air can do:
It cannot buy one a shirt or shoe:
It cannot bind a neat nest; find things
For leaving the earth on floating wings:
Nothing of twigs in it, nothing of roots;
But something of rivers, a little of flutes
That I've heard rippling a bodiless tune
That caught me up in a small balloon,
And took me high without writing a check;
And let me down without breaking my neck:
No affort at all: I was absent-minded:
Don't even know now what the air or the wind did.
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