<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536297" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Cuckoo Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Crowns are for kings to wear, sad crowns of gold<br>Over tired heads that ache, world--cares untold.<br>Not on thy happy brows, sweet bird of summer,<br>Set we such crowns to--day, thou Spring's new--comer.<br>Take from us, rather, thou these our wild posies.<br>April's and May's we bring, June's with its roses.<br>Nay and love's Cuckoo flowers, O child of glory!<br>Cuckoos thine own birds are; these be thy dowry.<br>Eve of our heart's shut field, need is we grieve thee,<br>Gone to a world more sweet where we must leave thee.<br>Russet--clad nightingales, tired of our chaunting,<br>Out in the dark we weep, our Queen--bird wanting.<br>Such is the fate of birds. Soon as the Spring comes<br>Vagrant they flit and fly. Lo! 'tis their King comes.<br>Endeth our night plaint only when, through the wild wood,<br>New born the day trips in, laughs as a child would.<br>O, then we too will laugh, join in the gay chime,<br>Run to thy marriage bells, birds of the day--time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536297" data-title="A Cuckoo Song de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="Crowns are for kings to wear, sad crowns of gold Over tired heads that ache, world--cares untold. Not on thy happy brows, sweet bird of summer, Set we such crowns to--day, thou Spring's new--comer. Take from us, rather, thou these our wild posies...."></div> </div> </div>

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