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Overtones

William Alexander Percy

I heard a bird at break of day
 Sing from the autumn trees
A song so mystical and calm,
 So full of certainties,
No man, I think, could listen long
 Except upon his knees.
Yet this was but a simple bird,
 Alone, among dead trees.

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From The Second Book of Modern Verse | 1919

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