A weight is on the air, for ev'ry breeze
Has, bird-like, folded up its wings for sleep.


The Ancestress (Spoken by Bertha) - The Venetian Bracelet (1829)


A weight is on the air, for ev'ry breeze Has, bird-like, folded up its wings for sleep.

A weight is on the air, for ev'ry breeze Has, bird-like, folded up its wings for sleep.

A weight is on the air, for ev'ry breeze Has, bird-like, folded up its wings for sleep.

A weight is on the air, for ev'ry breeze Has, bird-like, folded up its wings for sleep.