O Happy Blackbird

O Happy Blackbird written by William Henry Davies

From "Songs of Joy", 1911

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O happy Blackbird, happy soul,
I hear in song's delirium now:
Thou dost forget the days just past,
Of cold and hunger in the snow.

Would that man's memory were the same;
For he, alas! must backward cast
His misery-fearing eyes and fill
The future with his troubles past.

Thou hast no gift of Hope, like man,
To ease thee of a present pain;
But where's a man, in all this world.
Who would not sacrifice that gain,
O happy Blackbird: for the power
To use like thee his present hour.

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