<h2><SPAN name="chap78"></SPAN>WITH WAVES AND WINGS</h2>
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Waves and Wings and Growing Things!<br/>
As through the gladden sight ye flow<br/>
And flit and glow,<br/>
Ye win me so<br/>
In soul to go,<br/>
I too am waves, I too am wings,<br/>
And kindred motion in me springs.<br/>
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With thee I pass, glad growing grass!—<br/>
I climb the air with lissome mien;<br/>
Unsheathing keen<br/>
The vivid sheen<br/>
Of springing green,<br/>
I thrill the crude, exalt the crass<br/>
Fine-flex’d and fluent from Earth’s mass.<br/>
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And impulse craves with thee, Sea Waves!—<br/>
To make all mutable the floor<br/>
Of Earth’s firm shore,<br/>
With flashing pour<br/>
Whose brimming o’er<br/>
Impassion’d motion loves and laves<br/>
And livens sombre slumbering caves.<br/>
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Then soaring where the wild birds fare,<br/>
My song would sweep the windy lyre<br/>
Of Heaven’s choir,<br/>
Pulsing desire<br/>
For starry fire,<br/>
Abashing chilling vagues of air<br/>
With throbbing of warm breasts that dare!<br/></p>
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CHARLOTTE PORTER</p>
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