STRAY BIRDS
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"My heart is like the golden casket of thy kiss," said the sunset cloud to the sun.
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By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.
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The cricket's chirp and the patter of rain come to me through the dark, like the rustle of dreams from my past youth.
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"I have lost my dewdrop," cries the flower to the morning sky that has lost all its stars.
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