Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914.
By Herman ScheffauerA Wingless One
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Like blooms from their fields astray,
On painted wings that fluttered and spun
Two golden butterflies play—
Two flames by an airy love made one
In the heart of the day—
But was doomed on the earth to lie,
Till I cursed the clasp of the marl that clings
To thwart my lust for the sky,
And the mournful hunger of wingless things
For the visions that die.