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ON FINDING A SMALL FLY CRUSHED IN A BOOK - ZaunköniG - 01.01.2011
ON FINDING A SMALL FLY CRUSHED IN A BOOK
Some hand, that never meant to do thee hurt,
Has crush'd thee here between these pages pent ;
But thou hast left thine own fair monument,
Thy wings gleam out and tell me what thou wert :
Oh ! that the memories, which survive us here,
Were half as lovely as these wings of thine !
Pure relics of a blameless life, that shine
Now thou art gone. Our doom is ever near :
The peril is beside us day by day ;
The book will close upon us, it may be.
Just as we lift ourselves to soar away
Upon the summer-airs. But, unlike thee.
The closing book may stop our vital breath.
Yet leave no lustre on our page of death.