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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PLEA OF THE SHOT SWALLOW, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography
First Line: In teos once, bedewed with odours fine
Last Line: Sweet as his dainty ode thy dirge should be.
Subject(s): Swallows
First Line: In teos once, bedewed with odours fine
Last Line: Sweet as his dainty ode thy dirge should be.
Subject(s): Swallows
In Teos once, bedewed with odours fine,
The happy dove slept on his master's lyre;
A little homeless swallow clings to mine,
A spirit-bird - he looks for something higher
Than songs and odours; pity and remorse
He claims - an elegy of words and tears:
He asks me why they swept him from his peers,
When wheeling gaily in his wondrous course;
And now he comes, with trembling wings, to plead
For some brief record of his cruel fate;
Some note of tuneful sorrow for the deed
Which struck him from the side of his dear mate.
Poor bird! had I the Teian's melody,
Sweet as his dainty Ode thy dirge should be.
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