Unfledged - An 1872 Poetic Expression
- The egg of a little bird
- Fell at my feet to-day,
- And the life within it stirred,
- Throbbed once and sank away.
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- A song fell out of a heart
- Into the hands of men;
- They broke it all apart,
- And none would know it then.
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- Poor little bird on the grass!
- Poor little trembling song!
- Beside you both I pass,
- And the way, the way is long.
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- Poor little wren so brown
- Twittering over her loss!
- Poor little heart cast down:
- Thine is the greater cross!
December 4, 1872. Orangeburg Times 1(42): 5.