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A Bird's View

A Bird's View

O bird, I said, I wish I had
Like you: two wings to fly;
I'd travel the world thru' valley and wood,
I'd dart thru' the star-spangled sky.

O bird, I said, there's much I crave,
I'm unhappy, I'm dissatisfied;
There's much I want and much I need;
There's much I desire, I cried.

O crazy man! the little bird said,
Don't crave for what you've not.
Put to good use what you do possess,
Else all that is there will rot.

You ache for my wings, but don't you see?
Fate has been so unfair;
I'm like that young boy who had two shoes,
But had no feet to wear!

Sorrowed, I asked, then how can you sing?
Captive behind these bars?
How do you bring forth such joyous strains?
When you ache to reach the stars?

O man, said the bird, you stupid thing!
‘Tis only my wings that are tied.
My mind is free to travel the world,
I can dream of the stars, he sighed.

Where the mind is free, bars cannot enslave,
In my dreams I roam night and day;
When I die, I shall die in flesh alone,
Thru' my songs immortal I'll stay.

Thru' what you have done, you live after death,
Do something worthwhile, said the bird.
So your life, like the perfume of a fading flower,
Shall linger upon the palm of the world.




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