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BALLADE OF HIS CHOICE OF A SEPULCHRE by ANDREW LANG

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First Line: HERE I'D COME WHEN WEARIEST!
Last Line: WHERE THE WIDE-WINGED HAWK DOTH HOVER!
Subject(s): BIRDS;
HERE I'd come when weariest!
Here the breast
Of the Windberg's tufted over
Deep with bracken; here his crest
Takes the west,
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover.

Silent here are lark and plover;
In the cover
Deep below, the cushat best
Loves his mate, and croons above her
O'er their nest,
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover.

Bring me here, Life's tired-out guest,
To the blest
Bed that waits the weary rover, --
Here should failure be confest;
Ends my quest,
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover!

ENVOY

Friend, or stranger kind, or lover,
Ah, fulfil a last behest,
Let me rest
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover!



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