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THE LOWER BOUGH by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN

First Line: REST ON THE LOWER BOUGH
Last Line: WITHIN THE LIGHT.
Subject(s): AMBITION;
Rest on the lower bough,
Whose wings are frail,
Nor seek the riotous tops
Lashed by the gale.

Let not ambition tempt
To flutter where
The eagle's iron wing
May scarcely dare.

All native to the sward
And leafy shade,
Thy slender treble fills
The quiet glade.

But in the upper gale
Thy little sound
Were like a rose-leaf reft
And blown around,

Or in the solitude
Of height on height,
The flickering of a spark
Within the light.



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