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The Bird of Time

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O Bird of Time on your fruitful bough

What are the songs you sing? …

Songs of the glory and gladness of life,

Of poignant sorrow and passionate strife,

And the lilting joy of the spring;

Of hope that sows for the years unborn,

And faith that dreams of a tarrying morn,

The fragrant peace of the twilight's breath,

And the mystic silence that men call death.

O Bird of Time, say where did you learn

The changing measures you sing? …

In blowing forests and breaking tides,

In the happy laughter of new-made brides,

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And the nests of the new-born spring;

In the dawn that thrills to a mother's prayer,

And the night that shelters a heart's despair,

In the sigh of pity, the sob of hate,

And the pride of a soul that has conquered fate.