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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SIX MOVEMENTS; FOR MRS. EDWARD MACDOWELL: 5. SWALLOWS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography
First Line: They're not going travelling for many a day
Last Line: He'll be but a lover: another st francis.
Subject(s): Swallows
First Line: They're not going travelling for many a day
Last Line: He'll be but a lover: another st francis.
Subject(s): Swallows
They're not going travelling for many a day:
They don't attempt branches, they seek it in clay:
First they start holes, and then dig in hollows:
Excavate caverns to lay future swallows:
A gray, crumbling chapel, best for the landing:
Too old for man -- not too old to be standing:
A home no one visits, come west or come east,
Unless he be harmless, some hermit or priest,
Who walkes in a plot shaded green, an arena
Between pater noster and ave maria.
If he should lift eyes and see birds, the chance is:
He'll be but a lover: another St Francis.
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