Wings of silver

Chapter 3: BIRDS OF PASSAGE

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The collection presents spiritual and nature-centered lyric poems that use images of flight, birds, and weaving to explore life, faith, and immortality. Through meditations on growth, seasons, and the soul's ascent, the verses celebrate love, the transformative power of prayer and perseverance, and the letting-go that opens the heart. Several poems personify life and the weaver figure to contrast selfish ambition with loving creation, while invocations to the sky and stars urge trust in a transcendent presence. Tone alternates between contemplative exhortation and hopeful consolation, with recurring motifs of wings, dawn, and renewal framing a steady emphasis on spiritual uplift and inner victory.

BIRDS OF PASSAGE

From the North where the snows come sweeping,

To the South where poppies glow;

Thy changeless course thou’rt keeping,

Unswerved by winds that blow.

From the South to the North aquiver

With awakened life, thou dost wing

Thy flight over plain and river,—

At the whispered call of Spring.

With unwavering purpose thou hiest,

Untiring, through leagues of air;

Ne’er doubting thy wings, thou fliest,

Content—for thou knowest where.

Blest birds of passage, oh, teach me:—

Life’s soft inner call to obey,

To turn where death’s blight cannot reach me,

And keep to my course each day;

To press on, nor faint—never drifting;

Trusting my invincible soul,—

The wings that, unfailing, are lifting;—

At peace with Life—knowing my goal.