Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BIRD OR BEAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Did any bird come flying
Last Line: Were preachers sent from god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina


DID any bird come flying
After Adam and Eve,
When the door was shut against them
And they sat down to grieve?

I think not Eve's peacock
Splendid to see,
And I think not Adam's eagle;
But a dove may be.

Did any beast come pushing
Through the thorny hedge
Into the thorny thistly world,
Out from Eden's edge?

I think not a lion,
Though his strength is such;
But an innocent loving lamb
May have done as much.

If the dove preached from her bough,
And the lamb from his sod,
The lamb and the dove
Were preachers sent from God.





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