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Pfeiffer, Emily: THE WINGED SOUL. - ZaunköniG - 28.10.2007 THE WINGED SOUL. MY soul is like some cage-born bird, that hath A restless prescience howsoever won Of a broad pathway leading to the sun, With promptings of an oft-reproved faith In sun-ward yearnings. Stricken though her breast, And faint her wing, with beating at the bars Of sense, she looks beyond outlying stars And only in the Infinite sees rest. Sad soul ! If ever thy desire be bent Or broken to thy doom, and made to share The ruminant's beatitude, content, Chewing the cud of knowledge, with no care For germs of life within ; then will I say, Thou art not caged, but fitly stalled in clay ! |