Single-hearted Soul

The skylark is a single-hearted soul,

A Christian soul in that one aspect, pure

In major key devotion, song its whole

Obsession as its soaring, one sect pure

In melody and purpose.  Shakers could

Not in their dancing and their simple song

Compete with this one lyric bird, nor would

They if they understood the dimple song

It flourishes within their firmament.

Their Mother Anne, if she had thought about

It, would have nodded, would have winked assent

To rivalling hymns, one such a clanging shout.

  The tiny fluttering dipping wings fly high

©  Phillip Whidden