White Bird of Love

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2 class="nobreak">WHITE BIRD OF LOVE</h2></div> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Little white bird of the summer sky,</div> <div class="indent">Silver against the golden sun,</div> <div class="verse">Over the green of the hills you fly,</div> <div class="indent">You and the sweet, wild air are one.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Glorious sights are in that far place</div> <div class="indent">Reached by your daisy-petal wing,</div> <div class="verse">Rose-colored meteors dive through space,</div> <div class="indent">Stars made of molten music sing.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Still, though your quivering eager flight</div> <div class="indent">Reaches the groves by Heaven town,</div> <div class="verse">Where all the angels cry out, &#8220;Alight!</div> <div class="indent">Stop, little bird, come down, come down!&#8221;</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Careless you speed over fields of stars,</div> <div class="indent">Darting through Heaven swift and free;</div> <div class="verse">Nothing your arrowy passage bars</div> <div class="indent">Back to the earth and back to me.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</SPAN></span> <div class="verse">Here in the orchard of dream-fruit fair</div> <div class="indent">Out of my dreams is built your nest.</div> <div class="verse">Blossoming dreams all the branches bear,</div> <div class="indent">Fit for my silver dream-bird&#8217;s rest.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Here, since they love you, the young stars shine,</div> <div class="indent">Through the white petals come their beams.</div> <div class="verse">Little white love-laden bird of mine,</div> <div class="indent">Let them shine on you through my dreams.</div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />