• From “The Princess”
      O SWALLOW, Swallow, flying, flying South,
    Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves,
    And tell her, tell her what I tell to thee.

      O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each,
    That bright and fierce and fickle is the South,
    And dark and true and tender is the North.

      O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and...

  • And is the swallow gone?
        Who beheld it?
        Which way sailed it?
    Farewell bade it none?

    No mortal saw it go;—
        But who doth hear
        Its summer cheer
    As it flitteth to and fro?

    So the freed spirit flies!
        From its surrounding clay
        It steals away
    Like the swallow from the skies.

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