Love is as Strong as Death

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The reason that the skylark sings and sings

And sings and sings is since the sky is wide

And high.  He thinks this means his song and wings

Should try to fill it . . . and make love abide

Across his cosmos.  Skylarks do not want

A universe without affection.  They

Insist, insist, insist the sky is made to vaunt

A lover’s song (his song, of course).  They pray

Their psalms again, again, again because they know

That love desires in universal home

With ceiling far above what birds can sew

With notes as seeds in upturned field as dome.

  They plant their lyrics for their would-be bride

    And set winged death from hovering hawks aside.