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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: MID-NOON IN JANUARY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a fibry fern-tree bough
Last Line: Breathes 'mid the green fern-spaces round
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Animals; Australia; January
First Line: Upon a fibry fern-tree bough
Last Line: Breathes 'mid the green fern-spaces round
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Animals; Australia; January
Upon a fibry fern-tree bough
A huge iguana lies alow,
Bright yellow in the noonday glow
With bars of black, -- it watcheth now
A gorgeous insect hover high
Till suddenly its lance doth fly
And catch the prey -- but still no sound
Breathes 'mid the green fern-spaces round
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