Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems by the late Thomas Haynes Bayly; Edited by his Widow. With A Memoir of the Author. In Two Volumes |
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FLY AWAY, POOR CAPTIVE BIRD.
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Fly away!Poor captive bird
Too long I've heard
Thy notes of woe,
I'll let thee go,
'Tis hard to sing
With fetter'd wing
Then fly away!
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Fly away!I've known the gloom
Of such a doom;
I've seen the stars
Through prison bars,
And prayed to be
At liberty!
Then fly away!
III
Fly away!'Tis sad to dwell
In such a cell;
To heave a sigh
For yon blue sky,
For hills, and groves,
And early loves;
Then fly away.
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