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Within a home for captive beasts	A
Whose world had dwindled to a cage	B
I noted in their mournful eyes	C
Such resignation fear and rage	B
I longed at once to set them free	D
And send them over land and sea	D
To live again in liberty	D
	-
For them no more the mountain range	E
The desert vast the jungle's lair	F
Their meaner fate through grated bars	G
To feel the public's hateful stare	F
Poor prisoners doomed henceforth to pace	H
With stinted strides a narrow space	H
And daily gaping crowds to face	H
	-
At length I stood before a cage	B
Where guarded by a loftier screen	I
Were artificial rocks and pools	J
And strips of vegetation green	I
There perched upon some rocky mound	K
Or crouching on the miry ground	K
A flock of waterfowl I found	K
	-
Storks poised upon a single leg	L
Stood dreaming of the eternal Nile	M
The Mecca of their winter flight	N
When lured by Egypt's sunny smile	M
While ducks and geese in gabbling mood	O
Explored the muddy pond for food	O
Attended by their noisy brood	O
	-
Their keeper brought their evening meal	P
And instantly on broad webbed feet	Q
And stilt like legs and flapping wings	R
The feathered bipeds rushed to greet	Q
With snaps and cluckings of delight	N
The joyful ever welcome sight	N
Of supper at the approach of night	N
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Yet all came not Two stood apart	S
With plumage like fresh fallen snow	T
Two Silver Herons of a race	H
As pure and fine as earth can show	T
Amid the tumult that was rife	U
These loathed the others' greedy strife	U
And looked disgusted with their life	U
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With closed eyes shrinking from the mass	V
They seemed in thought removed as far	W
From all their coarse environment	X
As sun is separate from star	W
The very picture of disdain	Y
From all such gorging it was plain	Y
They had determined to refrain	Y
	-
The keeper murmured with reproach	Z
Those Silver Herons are too proud	A2
Why should they not partake of food	O
Together with the common crowd	A2
They eat a little from my hand	B2
But would prefer to starve than stand	B2
Besmeared by that uncleanly band	B2
	-
A month hence neither will be here	C2
For both will grieve themselves to death	D2
And when one falls its mate expires	E2
With scarcely an additional breath	D2
And should there come another pair	F
In their turn they the fate will share	F
Of those two herons standing there	F
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Poor hapless birds I see them yet	F2
Alone and starving in their pride	G2
Their glittering plumage still intact	H2
While standing bravely side by side	G2
And although put to hunger's test	I2
Continuing mutely to protest	I2
Against defilement with the rest	I2
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O Silver Herons teach mankind	J2
To cherish thus a stainless name	K2
To shun the vile ignoble crowd	A2
Preferring death to smirch and shame	K2
A foul unfriendly mob to brave	L2
And go unspotted to the grave	L2
Is not to lose one's life but save	L2

John L. Stoddard

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