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WHOOPING CRANE by LEW SARETT

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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