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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHOOPING CRANE, by LEW SARETT Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh what a night it was for dreams
Last Line: Never a feather stirred.
Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Night; Bedtime
First Line: Oh what a night it was for dreams
Last Line: Never a feather stirred.
Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Night; Bedtime
OH WHAT a night it was for dreams:
The bayou placid after rain;
The pensive moon, the silver gleams—
And among the reeds, a crane.
Like a silver fountain fixed by frost,
All night the stilted sleeping bird
In frozen winter-sleep was lost;
Never a feather stirred.
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