The Jazz-bird sings a barnyard song—
A cock-a-doodle bray,
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The angels guide him now,
And watch his curly head,
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No doubt to-morrow I will hide My face from you, my King.
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(IN THE BEGINNING)
The sun is a huntress young,
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I look on the specious electrical light
Blatant, mechanical, crawling and white,
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No man should stand before the moon
To make sweet song thereon,
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O dandelion, rich and haughty,
King of village flowers!
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What the Carpenter Said
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Old Euclid drew a circle
On a sand-beach long ago.
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Factory windows are always broken.
Somebody's always throwing bricks,
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The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
In the days of long ago,
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True Love is founded in rocks of Remembrance
In stones of Forbearance and mortar of pain.
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The North Star whispers: "You are one
Of those whose course no chance can change.
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Oh, once I walked a garden
In dreams. 'Twas yellow grass.
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(To Edgar Lee Masters, with great respect)
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Even the shrewd and bitter,
Gnarled by the old world's greed,
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The moon is now an opening flower,
The sky a cliff of blue.
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This section is a Christmas tree:
Loaded with pretty toys for you.
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Girl with the burning golden eyes,
And red-bird song, and snowy throat:
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The moon's a steaming chalice,
Of honey and venom-wine.
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Where now the huts are empty,
Where never a camp-fire glows,
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Hungry for music with a desperate hunger
I prowled abroad, I threaded through the town;
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A curse upon each king who leads his state,
No matter what his plea, to this foul game,
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"Bring me soft song," said Aladdin.
"This tailor-shop sings not at all.
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(To a Man who maintained that the Mausoleum is the Stateliest Possible Manner of Interment)
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Awake again in Asia, Lord of Peace,
Awake and preach, for her far swordsmen rise.
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I asked the old Negro, "What is that bird that sings so well?" He answered: "That is the Rachel-Jane." "Hasn't it another name, lark, or thrush, or the like?
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SECTION ONE
"Give the engines room,
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A chant to which it is intended a group of children shall dance and improvise pantomime led by their dancing-teacher.
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A chant for a children's pantomime dance, suggested by a picture painted by George Mather Richards.
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