To a Little White Bird

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Into the world you came, and I was dumb, Because "God did it," so the wise ones said; I wonder sometimes "Did you really come?" And "Are you truly . . . DEAD?" Thus you went out -- alone and uncaressed; O sweet, soft thing, in all your infant grace, I never held you in my arms, nor pressed Warm kisses on your face! But, in the Garden of the Undefiled, My soul will claim you . . . you, and not another; I shall hold out my arms, and say "MY CHILD!" And you will call me "MOTHER!"

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