Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BIRD SONGS, by MARGUERITE SCRIBNER FROST


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BIRD SONGS, by                    
First Line: How straight and swift a bird's song finds the heart
Last Line: Chanting their creeds of faith against earth's fears!
Subject(s): Birds


How straight and swift a bird's song finds the heart
And wakes its haunted woodlands! When each June
The thrushes sing, lost voices take a part,
Spilling soft laughter through that lyric tune;
And childhood days are there, and youthful love.
Deep-throated, rhythmic note of whippoorwills
Brings back New England roads, gnarled trees above
An ancient house, rose-red against blue hills --
What clinging memories the songs recall!
Each wooing nightingale forever sings
Lovely Maggiore's moon; but best of all
The bells of home the vesper sparrow rings.
Ah, love, how sweet the birds have sung the years,
Chanting their creeds of faith against earth's fears!





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