Lyrics of Earth

<h2><SPAN name="SNOWBIRDS" id="SNOWBIRDS"></SPAN>SNOWBIRDS</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Along the narrow sandy height<br/></span> <span class="i2">I watch them swiftly come and go,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Or round the leafless wood,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Like flurries of wind-driven snow,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Revolving in perpetual flight,<br/></span> <span class="i4">A changing multitude.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Nearer and nearer still they sway,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And, scattering in a circled sweep,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Rush down without a sound;<br/></span> <span class="i2">And now I see them peer and peep,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Across yon level bleak and gray,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Searching the frozen ground,&mdash;<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Until a little wind upheaves,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And makes a sudden rustling there,<br/></span> <span class="i4">And then they drop their play,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Flash up into the sunless air,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And like a flight of silver leaves<br/></span> <span class="i4">Swirl round and sweep away.<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</SPAN></span></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />