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Questioning.
QUESTIONING.
My little bird within his cage is singing
   His gay, sweet song;
With joyous melody the room is ringing
   The whole day long.

Beyond his gilded cage he has no dreaming,
   His all, his home:
No care beside e'er shades his happy seeming,
   No wish to roam.

But when I ope his cage and bid him enter
   The mansion wide,
Where rooms and halls diverge as from a centre
   On every side,

He mutely stands to turn and gaze and wonder
   At space so vast:
Relations old and sense secure asunder
   Are rent at last.