Song Within the Shafe

I beheld rapture among the summer leaves,

As smiling flowers upheld the morning dew;

And bowered havens: under the woven eaves

Held speckled younglings bathed in tender blue.

They leapt like pulsing petals in the ether 

So newly born, so innocent and so fair,

Their seraphic plumes made glad me as a believer,

And filled with mellifluous strain the noonday air.

When, after many months, I sought my shade,

Aha, my little hermitage lay wild and green;

The lawn, untouched by shears my hand had made,

Had grown a peaceful world unheard, unseen.

Then learned I this: what man would prune away

May be the very life for which birds stay.

____Poet Affaq 

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