LIGHT-WINGED SMOKE
by: Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
- IGHT-WINGED Smoke, Icarian bird,
- Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
- Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn,
- Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
- Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
- Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
- By night star-veiling, and by day
- Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
- Go thou my incense upward from this hearth,
- And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
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