Inheritance Poem by Teresa Hooley

Inheritance



The shadow of a flying bird
Dark on a dew-white lawn,
And all the heart of me is stirred
By beauty old as dawn.

A million birds upon the wing,
A million stumbling years,
Have gone to make this perfect thing
I see to-day with tears.

This joy through many a patient night
Beneath God's fingers grew-
The shadow of a bird's swift flight
Upon a lawn of dew.

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