Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SEA-CHANGE, by BERENICE VAN SLYKE



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SEA-CHANGE, by                    
First Line: Before a young lark sings
Last Line: Remembers how.
Alternate Author Name(s): Heaton, Maurice C., Mrs.
Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks


Before a young lark sings,
For many an hour
He sits as mute and still
As bud of a flower.

Small head upraised to sun
He drinks the air,
The tranquil solitude
About him there.

He flicks his tail indeed
But his calm eye
Ignores his feathered reach
Were he to fly.

Yet if to him a bird
Begins to sing
He straightway answers back
And lifts his wing.

And he is born again
In double flight
Of song and pinion loosed
On seas of light.

The voice that called to him
Was cause of this,
That silence after joy
Should beat with bliss.

Later the bird may sway,
Mute flower on bough,
But he has sung: his heart
Remembers how.





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