Versos English A. Cleveland Coxe To a Lady, LXXII

English poem

To a Lady, LXXII

by (1818–1896)

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A hawk—a hawk in chase above! Oh fast! fly fast, my little dove! A hawk!—a hawk! I’ve come again To breathe the atmosphere of men, For ever and aye, in the world ’twas so, Where a dove was flying, a hawk would go!