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Alexander Search – Little Bird
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[BNP/E3, 78A – 14-16]

 

Song

 

Little Bird

 

Poet.

 

Little bird, sing me a sweet song deep

     Of what is not to‑day;

Be it not the future that yet doth sleep

In the hall where Time his hours doth keep,

     More than far away.

 

Sing me a song of the things thou knew'st

     And desirest e'er,

Be it a song to which but is used

The heart that has to love refused

     What is merely fair.

 

Bird

 

Young, too young hither I was brought

     From the dells and trees;

Weep with me - I remember them not

Save with a vague and a pining thought:

     Can I sing of these?

 

[15r]

 

Little Bird – 2.

 

Poet

 

Sing, little bird, sing me that song -­

     None can be more dear -

Come of the spirit that doth long

Not for the past with a sadness strong,

     But for what was never here.

 

Sing me, sing me that song, little bird;

     I would also sing

Of sounds I remember yet never heard,

Of wishes by which my soul is stirred

     Till then bliss doth sting.

 

Bird

 

To breathe that singing I have no might;

     Sing it deeply thou!

I sing when the day is clear and bright

And when the moon is so much in night

     That thy tears do flow.

 

But thou, thou sing'st in woe, in ill,

     And thy voice is fit

 

[16r]

 

Little Bird – 3.

 

To speak of what the wish doth fill

With pinings indescribable,

     Shadows vague of it.

 

Poet.

 

Ay, little bird, let us sing in all weather

     A song, of to‑day,

Come of the sense we feel together

That nothing that doth die and wither

     Truly goes away.

 

Alexander Search

 

January 10th. 1908.

 

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January 10th. 1908
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Fernando Pessoa, Poesia Inglesa, Organização, tradução e notas de Luísa Freire, Prefácio de Teresa Rita Lopes, Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 1995, pp. 158, 160.
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