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TO A SPARROW

Because you have no fear to mingle
Wings with those of greater part,
So like me, with song I single
Your sweet impudence of heart.


And when prouder feathers go where
Summer holds her leafy show,
You still come to us from nowhere
Like grey leaves across the snow.


In back ways where odd and end go
To your meals you drop down sure,
Knowing every broken window
Of the hospitable poor.