chapter 31 free flight
Soaring and swooping in sweet company,
In diligent effort to greatest degree,
Nothing prepared me in all of my days;
Gilded experience set me ablaze!
Indigo cliffs passing under my feet,
Nerved me to think on averted defeat,
Glittered horizons I canted to greet!
Twittering harvest of travelling light,
Harmony gathered my senses' delight,
Enlivened emotions, ebullient flight!
My friends in their feathers implicitly free,
Openly guiding a cuckoo in me,
Raining their song in the quivering air,
Nymphs of the breezes, they lifted my care.
I spun with the band through a flurry of time,
Numberless notes in their fabulous chime,
Grief of my body begone into rhyme.
I swooped in the joy of my sweet company
Never to doubt who had sent them for me.
In diligent effort to greatest degree,
Nothing prepared me in all of my days;
Gilded experience set me ablaze!
Indigo cliffs passing under my feet,
Nerved me to think on averted defeat,
Glittered horizons I canted to greet!
Twittering harvest of travelling light,
Harmony gathered my senses' delight,
Enlivened emotions, ebullient flight!
My friends in their feathers implicitly free,
Openly guiding a cuckoo in me,
Raining their song in the quivering air,
Nymphs of the breezes, they lifted my care.
I spun with the band through a flurry of time,
Numberless notes in their fabulous chime,
Grief of my body begone into rhyme.
I swooped in the joy of my sweet company
Never to doubt who had sent them for me.