• "Hope" is the thing with feathers

    That perches in the soul

    And sings the tune without the words

    And never stops at all


    And sweetest in the Gale is heard

    And sore must be the storm —

    That could abash the little Bird

    That kept so many warm —


    I've heard it in the...

  • Lift it — with the Feathers

    Not alone we fly —

    Launch it — the aquatic

    Not the only sea —

    Advocate the Azure

    To the lower Eyes —

    He has obligation

    Who has Paradise —

  • She staked her Feathers — Gained an Arc —

    Debated — Rose again —

    This time — beyond the estimate

    Of Envy, or of Men —


    And now, among Circumference —

    Her steady Boat be seen —

    At home — among the Billows — As

    The Bough where she was born —

  • Oh! the circus swooped down

    On the Narrabri town,

    For the Narrabri populace moneyed are;

    And the showman he smiled

    At the folk he beguiled

    To come all the distance from Gunnedah.


    But a juvenile smart,

    Who objected to "part",

    Went in on the nod, and to do it he

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