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I burn'd
And ached for wings

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I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.

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For if I wimp my wing on thine. Affliction shall advance the flight in me.

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.

Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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