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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COURAGE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poet's Biography
First Line: Into a brown wood flew a brown bird
Last Line: And whistled merrily.
Subject(s): Birds
First Line: Into a brown wood flew a brown bird
Last Line: And whistled merrily.
Subject(s): Birds
Into a brown wood flew a brown bird
In the winter time:
The sky was dark with snow unfallen,
The leaves were bent with rime.
Once north he flew, once south he flew,
He perched in a naked tree.
He looked into the dreary dusk
And whistled merrily.
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