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PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE TO A BIRD MASQUE: EPILOGUE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gentles, if you have followed me
Last Line: And tacita her dreams! — our masque is done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Robins; Wings


Gentles, if you have followed me,
Now is no need to say goodbye;
For we shall meet in revery
Wherever glad birds sing and fly —
Wherever sad birds bleed and dumbly die.

Oh, where they mount on wings and song
'Tis we who mount there — you and I;
And where they fall and suffer wrong
'Tis we who perish — you and I:
Our own is Ornis' pain or ecstasy.

So, at fresh rise and set of sun,
May ornis bring her joy to you, each one,
And Tacita her dreams! — Our masque is done.





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