Poems (Kimball)/The Flight of the Birds

by Harriet McEwen Kimball

Part II.

To my Nieces,

JEANIE, MARY, AND EDITH.

THE FLIGHT OF THE BIRDS.

O WISE little birds, how do ye know    The way to go,Southward and northward, to and fro?

Far up in the ether pipèd they:     "We but obey One who calleth us far away.

"He calleth and calleth year by year, Now there, now here; Ever He maketh the way appear."

Dear little birds! He calleth me     Who calleth ye: Would that I might as trusting be!