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FLYING FISH by MARY MCNEIL SCOTT FENOLLOSA

First Line: OUT WHERE THE SKY AND THE SKY-BLUE SEA
Last Line: OF BIRDS THAT WERE DROWNED AT SEA?
Subject(s): FISH & FISHING; ANGLERS;
OUT where the sky and the sky-blue sea
Merge in a mist of sheen,
There started a vision of silver things,
A leap and a quiver, a flash of wings
The sky and the sea between.

Is it of birds from the blue above,
Or fish from the depths that be?
Or is it the ghosts
In silver hosts
Of birds that were drowned at sea?



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