The Linnet

The Linnet written by Walter de la Mare

Motley and Other Poems (1918)

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Upon this leafy bush
      With thorns and roses in it,
Flutters a thing of light,
      A twittering linnet.
And all the throbbing world
      Of dew and sun and air
By this small parcel of life
      Is made more fair;
As if each bramble-spray
And mounded gold-wreathed furze,
      Harebell and little thyme,
      Were only hers;
As if this beauty and grace
      Did to one bird belong,
And, at a flutter of wing,
      Might vanish in song.

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