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UNITY by VIRGINIA WOODWARD CLOUD

First Line: A SOMBRE PINE IS STIRRED
Last Line: AND BRUSHED BY THE BIRD'S SOFT WING.
Subject(s): DREAMS; PINE TREES; NIGHTMARES;
A sombre pine is stirred
By the recreant wind on high,
And out of the gloom, like a word
Breaketh a bird to the sky.

The sky speaks truth through a star,
The star seeks the heart of the sea,
To the sea strives a river afar,
To the river a brook laughs free,

And down to the brook there gleams
The thread of a mountain spring,
Born in the hush of that pine-tree's dreams,
And brushed by the bird's soft wing.



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