Excerpt from As Wild Birds Sing: Poems The wild bird sings because it must, As first it tries its untaught wings. A bit of song-enchanted dust Attuned to life and joy and trust; It lifts its little heart and sings Because it must. Its free wild note ecstatic rings Of glad young worlds and dear love-dreams. What fond hopes thrill those fine heart-strings! What transports stir those small brown wings! A'erial rapture's myriad themes The wild bird sings! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.