William Alexander Percy Poems

I heard a bird at break of day
   Sing from the autumn trees
A song so mystical and calm,
   So full of certainties,
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Could I pluck down Aldebaran
And haze the Pleiads in your hair
I could not add more burning to your beauty
Or lend a starrier coldness to your air.
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My only love is a sailor lad
Whose home is the fickle sea,
To other girls he gives his smiles,
But his mouth he gives to me.
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