Tell Me, World, and Tell Me, Nature

Tell Me, World, and Tell Me, Nature written by William Henry Davies

From "The Birth Of Song", 1936

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No spoilt, no pampered child am I,
Neither by nature nor the World;
Enough to keep my Body in breath
Is all I get in silver and gold.
How many pools have been my haunts,
Which but a Moorhen stirred,
To see my great Kingfisher twice -
That wild and lovely, life-sought Bird!

And many a Rainbow too has come
All silently in Heaven, and gone,
Between last Blackberry-time and this -
While I saw only one!
Then tell me, World, and tell me, Nature -
Am I a spoilt and pampered creature?

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