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The Beautiful " Birds of Paradise " from the equally beautiful Christina Rossetti
From the Pen of Christina Rossetti :
GOLDEN-WINGED
- SILVER-WINGED Birds of
Paradise
Golden-winged,
silver-winged,
Winged with flashing flame, Such a flight of
birds I saw,
Birds without a name
: Singing songs in their own tongue
- Song of songs -
they came.
One to each other
calling
Each answering each,
One to another calling
In their proper
speech : High above my head they wheeled, Far
out of reach.
On wings of flame they went
and came With a cadenced clang
: Their silver
wings tinkled, Their golden wings rang
; The wind it whistled throug their
wings Where in heaven they
sang.
They
flashed and they darted Awhile before mine
eyes, Mounting, mounting, mounting
still, In haste
to scale the skies, Birds without a nest on
earth,
Birds of
Paradise.
Where the moon riseth not Nor sun seeks
the west,
There to sing their
glory Which
they sing at
rest,
There to sing their
love-song When they sing their best
:-
Not in any
garden
That mortal foot hath trod, Not in any
flowering tree
That
springs from earthly sod, But in the garden
where they dwell,
The Paradise of God.
The Beautiful " Birds of Paradise " from the equally beautiful Christina Rossetti
