<h2><SPAN name="WHEREFORE_WINGS" id="WHEREFORE_WINGS"></SPAN>WHEREFORE WINGS?</h2>
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<span class="i0">Heigho, sparrow! Reckless of the rain;<br/></span>
<span class="i2">When chill the cheerless wind grows,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Chirping might and main!<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Is it naught, then, when the rose<br/></span>
<span class="i6">Blows again?<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Beating, sleeting on your draggled coat!<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Surely, 'tis enough to drown<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Any happy note<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Nestling in that downy brown<br/></span>
<span class="i6">Little throat.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Ah me, sparrow! Had I but your power,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Think you in the freezing sleet<br/></span>
<span class="i0">I would waste an hour?<br/></span>
<span class="i2">—I'd sing my sweetest to a sweet<br/></span>
<span class="i6">Orange flower!<br/></span></div>
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