Living

A Song by Uncle Sidney

by James Whitcomb Riley 1849–1916

From Riley Songs of Friendship (1915)

Living

O were I not a clod, intent
On being just an earthly thing,
I'd be that rare embodiment
Of Heart and Spirit, Voice and Wing,
With pure, ecstatic, rapture-sent,
Divinely-tender twittering
That Echo swoons to re-present,--
A bluebird in the Spring.

MLA

Riley, James Whitcomb. “A Song by Uncle Sidney.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/riley/268/.

Chicago

Riley, James Whitcomb. “A Song by Uncle Sidney.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/riley/268/.

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