Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke
George Meredith (18281909)Youth in Age
O
On the boughs or sweet between earth and sky,
For joy of the beating of wings on high
My heart shot into the breast of the bird.
And a life in wrinkles again is stirred,
My heart shoots into the breast of the bird,
As it will for sheer love still the last long sigh.