Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WILD DUCK, by LEROY OLIVER MCLEOD


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THE WILD DUCK, by                    
First Line: A strange thing, that a lark and robin sky
Last Line: And calmly waited, knowing you would kill.
Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes


A strange thing, that a lark and robin sky
Should drop a wild duck on a little pond
Where cattle drink! -- Strange that a duck should fly
Down here, when there are lakes a day beyond! . .
Slowly it drags across the silken green
Two silver threads -- and fastens them quite near,
As if the seam were done . . . Perhaps the sheen,
Reflecting an old moonlight, drew it here.
Strange, that your eye should waver on the sight,
When it has guided death so oft before
To innocence as wild! . . . And stranger still,
A wild duck should withhold its wings from flight --
As if it had no heart for flying more,
And calmly waited, knowing you would kill.





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