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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TOO HIGH, by BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS LOW
First Line: That bird in the maple next my eaves
Last Line: Lay still. So with me.
Subject(s): Birds
First Line: That bird in the maple next my eaves
Last Line: Lay still. So with me.
Subject(s): Birds
That bird in the maple next my eaves,
Last bud-break of May,
At faintest of first dawn, one perceives,
Loved -- in his rapture of life and leaves --
As I love to-day.
His heart was so full of it, his throat
Could scarce, at first, free
The song, that took fire, climbed, note by note,
Neared heaven, came short, turned sad, fell remote,
Lay still. So with me.
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