Charles Harpur

“ Are seen,—or upward or beyond it cast,
Like crude-winged, mad limb'd monsters squandering in the blast!
The darkness thickens. With despairing cry,
From shattered boughs the rain-drenched parrots fly! ”

“ Brings to the wounded world a thrice endeared balm.
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