Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SONG OF FLIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: While we slumber and sleep
Last Line: And home lies beyond the stars and the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flight; Flying


WHILE we slumber and sleep
The sun leaps up from the deep --
Daylight born at the leap! --
Rapid, dominant, free,
Athirst to bathe in the uttermost sea.

While we linger at play --
If the year would stand at May! --
Winds are up and away
Over land, over sea,
To their goal wherever their goal may be.

It is time to arise,
To race for the promised prize, --
The Sun flies, the Wind flies --
We are strong, we are free,
And home lies beyond the stars and the sea.





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