The Swallow Poem by Ralph Hodgson

The Swallow

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The morning that my baby came
They found a baby swallow dead,
And saw a something, hard to name,
Flit moth-like over baby's bed.
My joy, my flower, my baby dear
Sleeps on my bosom well, but Oh!
If in the Autumn of the year
When swallows gather round and go -

Ralph Hodgson
Monday, April 19, 2010
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