The Darkling Thrush
Green Matthews
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I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires The land's sharp features seemed to be The Century's corpse outleant His crypt the cloudy canopy The wind his death-lament The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small In blast-beruffled plume Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware
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Written by: JAMES LEDGER, PAUL KELLY, THOMAS HARDY
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