VI.

But I bethink me of something better!--something better, yea best!

"I am lying a voiceless, featherless thing in God's own perfect nest;

And the voice and the song are growing within me, slowly lifting my

breast;

And his wide night-wings are closed about me, for his sun is down in the

west!"

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