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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Sparrow

George O’Neil

From “Wings of Spring”

O BIRD on the wire,

What is the world to you?

No vast place of unseen pressing things

Designed by hidden gods;

Just light, and warmth,

And air to beat your wings upon!

And that wet green bough

Sparkling in the sun,

Where you are fluttering—

Is that your heaven?