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Poems from Eastern sources (1851)
Trench, Richard Chenevix (1807-1886)
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Poems from Eastern sources (1851)
THE PELICAN.
I am the bird that from my bleeding breast
Draw the dear stream that nourishes my brood,
And feebly unto men his love attest,
True pelican, that feeds them with his blood.
Poems from Eastern sources (1851)