TO A DOVE

(By Serage Alwarak)

The dove to ease an aching breast,

In piteous murmurs vents her cares;

Like me she sorrows, for opprest,

Like me, a load of grief she bears.

Her plaints are heard in every wood,

While I would fain conceal my woes;

But vain's my wish, the briny flood,

The more I strive, the faster flows.