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34            Poems by Mary Baker Eddy

  	       O FOR THY WINGS, SWEET BIRD! 

 1	    O FOR thy wings, sweet bird! 
  	      And soul of melody by being
 3	        blest — 
  	    Like thee, my voice had stirred
  	      Some dear remembrance in a weary breast. 

 6	    But whither wouldst thou rove,
  	      Bird of the airy wing, and fold thy plumes? 
  	    In what dark leafy grove
 9	      Wouldst chant thy vespers 'mid rich
  	        glooms? 

  	        Or sing thy love-lorn note — 
12	      In deeper solitude, where nymph or saint
  	    Has wooed some mystic spot,
  	      Divinely desolate the shrine to paint? 

15	    Yet wherefore ask thy doom? 
  	      Blessed compared with me thou art — 
  	    Unto thy greenwood home
18	      Bearing no bitter memory at heart;
  	    Wearing no earthly chain,
  	      Thou canst in azure bright soar far above;
21	    Nor pinest thou in vain
  	      O'er joys departed, unforgotten love. 
 
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 1	    O take me to thy bower! 
  	      Beguile the lagging hours of weariness
 3	    With strain which hath strange power
  	      To make me love thee as I love life less! 

  	    From mortal consciousness
 6	      Which binds to earth — infirmity of woe! 
  	    Or pining tenderness — 
  	      Whose streams will never dry or cease to
 9	        flow;

  	    An aching, voiceless void,
  	      Hushed in the heart whe...reunto none reply,
12	    And in the cringing crowd
  	      Companionless! Bird, bear me through
  	        the sky! 

15	      Written more than sixty years ago for
  	       the New Hampshire Patriot. 
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