Lyra Pastoralis Songs of Nature, Church, and Home: By Richard Wilton |
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An Incident on the Stage Coach
to Cambridge, 1847 |
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An Incident on the Stage Coach to Cambridge, 1847
The shadow of a bird upon the blind,Perched in the pleasant lamplight, drew my eye,
As a dim, unknown village I passed by,
The day I left my boyhood's home behind.
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Murmured a pensive echo to my sigh,
When from my dreary vantage I descry
The happy bird, against the light defined.
Of sweet domestic joy the type it seemed,
Which from my life, alas! had taken wing—
But with long years returned; and I have deemed
That bird prophetic, and have heard it sing
Of dearer home-delights which now are mine
And through my window on the stranger shine!
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