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THE LARK'S NEST - ZaunköniG - 01.01.2011
THE LARK'S NEST
I never hear a lark its matins sing,
But I bethink me of that orphan nest,
Where once I saw a little callow thing.
Erect, with death-cold wings, above the rest,
As tho' he lived and pleaded. Light and shade
Swept in and out of his poor open maw,
While underneath his silent feet I saw
A short-breathed group of helpless orphans laid.
The life was ebbing from each infant throat,
Too young as yet for music's earliest note ;
High up a living lark sang loud and free —
Keen was the contrast—it was sad to mark
Those eyes, heaven-charter'd, now earth-bound and dark :
Beneath a morning sky they could not see.