A Better Thing

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Title:     A Better Thing
Author: George MacDonald [More Titles by MacDonald]

I took it for a bird of prey that soared
High over ocean, battled mount, and plain;
'Twas but a bird-moth, which with limp horns gored
The invisibly obstructing window-pane!

Better than eagle, with far-towering nerve
But downward bent, greedy, marauding eye,
Guest of the flowers, thou art: unhurt they serve
Thee, little angel of a lower sky!

[The end]
George MacDonald's poem: Better Thing

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