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To a Hummingbird
By Alexander Posey

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Now here, now there;

E’er posed somewhere

In sensuous air.

I only hear, I cannot see

The matchless winds that beareth thee.

Art thou some frenzied poet’s thought,

That God embodied and forgot?

Pre-1930
Animals
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