Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, YOUTH IN AGE, by GEORGE MEREDITH


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First Line: Once I was part of the music I heard
Last Line: As it will for sheer love till the last long sigh.
Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Death; Youth; Dead, The


ONCE I was part of the music I heard
On the boughs or sweet between earth and sky,
For joy of the beating of wings on high
My heart shot into the breast of the bird.

I hear it now and I see it fly,
And a life in wrinkles again is stirred,
My heart shoots into the breast of the bird,
As it will for sheer love till the last long sigh.





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