"Companions"
by Siegfried Sassoon
Leave not your bough, my slender song-bird sweet,
But pipe me now your roundelay complete.
Come, gentle breeze, and tarrying on your way,
Whisper my trees what you have seen to-day.
Stand, golden cloud, until my song be done,
So one did sing, and the other breathed a story;
Then both took wing, and the sun stepped forth in glory.
