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SIX MOVEMENTS; FOR MRS. EDWARD MACDOWELL: 2. HERMIT THRUSH by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG

First Line: IT'S HARD TO COUNT WHAT AN AIR CAN DO
Last Line: DON'T EVEN KNOW NOW WHAT THE AIR OR THE WIND DID.
Subject(s): BIRDS; THRUSHES;
It's hard to count what an air can do:
It cannot buy one a shirt or shoe:

It cannot bind a neat nest; find things
For leaving the earth on floating wings:

Nothing of twigs in it, nothing of roots;
But something of rivers, a little of flutes

That I've heard rippling a bodiless tune
That caught me up in a small balloon,

And took me high without writing a check;
And let me down without breaking my neck:

No affort at all: I was absent-minded:
Don't even know now what the air or the wind did.



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