Song From Zapolya [A Sunny Shaft Did I Behold]

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Title:     Song From Zapolya [A Sunny Shaft Did I Behold]
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

A Sunny shaft did I behold,
From sky to earth it slanted:
And poised therein a bird so bold--
Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted!

He sank, he rose, he twinkled, he trolled
Within that shaft of sunny mist;
His eyes of fire, his beak of gold,
All else of amethyst!

And thus he sang: 'Adieu! adieu!
Love's dreams prove seldom true.
The blossoms they make no delay:
The sparkling dew-drops will not stay.
Sweet month of May,
We must away;
Far, far away!
To-day! to-day!'

1815.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Song From Zapolya [A Sunny Shaft Did I Behold]

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