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LINES ON A CANARY SINGING TO AN ELECTRIC BEATER, by                    
First Line: There is no call for him to rise and sing
Last Line: More beauty than the fields, farflung and green.
Subject(s): Feathers


There is no call for him to rise and sing
No plump gold female comes to be his wife.
Alone forever in a gilded ring
Of curving bars, he flutes his lonely life.
No paean this to feathered fatherhood
When bursting eggs declare his progeny.
The whirring beater drones thru golden foam
A monotone discordant symphony --
And thru it peals his bursting yellow notes
Expending all the love in his lone breast;
To this strange heartless electricity
He hymns the notes that never found a nest --
Like some starved soul who finds in his machine
More beauty than the fields, farflung and green.





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