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ALOFT
Pleasant and peaceful all—most sweet
When morning and when evening fires
Silent above the busy street
Touch the dove-haunted roofs and spires.
When morning and when evening fires
Silent above the busy street
Touch the dove-haunted roofs and spires.
Neighbored by sparrow and by dove,
A comrade of the weather-cocks,
Here is the quiet perch I love,
The chimney stacks, the city clocks:—
A comrade of the weather-cocks,
Here is the quiet perch I love,
The chimney stacks, the city clocks:—
And thank the heavens that bend above
For leave to find such deep delight,
In tower and spire and fluttering dove,
Color and cloud and sparrow's flight!
For leave to find such deep delight,
In tower and spire and fluttering dove,
Color and cloud and sparrow's flight!
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