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LIVE by Lelia Thomas
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Mixed media piece. Charcoal drawing and digital art.
“Bird Sanctuary” by Robert Service (Poet)
Between the cliff-rise and the beach
A slip of emerald I own;
With fig and olive, almond, peach,
cherry and plum-tree overgrown;
Glad-watered by a crystal spring
That carols through the silver night,
And populous with birds who sing
Gay madrigals for my delight.
Some merchants fain would buy my land
To build a stately pleasure dome.
Poor fools! they cannot understand
how pricelessly it is my home!
So luminous with living wings,
So musical with feathered joy . . .
Not for all pleasure fortune brings,
Would I such ecstasy destroy.
A thousand birds are in my grove,
Melodious from morn to night;
My fruit trees are their treasure trove,
Their happiness is my delight.
And through the sweet and shining days
They know their lover and their friend;
So I will shield in peace and praise
My innocents unto the end.
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LIVE is by Lelia Katherine Thomas and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. You may republish the above image on your website, provided that you either (a) acknowledge Lelia as the creator of the work and/or (b) use the image above, keeping intact the website address in the bottom right corner. If you would like to use a larger version of this image in an online or print publication, contact Lelia with further details.