To
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On her Canary Bird.—“I
wish I were thy bird!”
Shaks.
Rom.
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YON
bird that flutters in his cage
And seems to struggle to be free;
Knows not the cares he would engage,
Dear —— —— when at large
from thee!
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should he break his wiry chain |
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And
seek the songsters of the grove;
Still would he fly to you again,
Where center’d rests his only love.
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For
me—whose heart (like him) is bound,
In —— ——’s unlamented
cage,
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I
would not leave my measur’d ground
For all the freedom of the age!
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For
should my light and winged heart,
Soar thro’ the limits of the world;
Still would it dread misfortune’s dart,
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faithless hate, and falshood hurl’d; |
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But
in my —— ——’s bond
repress’d,
Slavery itself becomes a bliss;
My only prison is her breast,
And each resistless chain a kiss! [Page
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