| Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914. | | | | A Wingless One | | By Herman Scheffauer |
| | | WHEN I saw in the vaults of azure and sun, | |
| Like blooms from their fields astray, | |
| On painted wings that fluttered and spun | |
| Two golden butterflies play— | |
| Two flames by an airy love made one | 5 |
| In the heart of the day— | |
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| Then I longed for a mate and the gift of wings, | |
| But was doomed on the earth to lie, | |
| Till I cursed the clasp of the marl that clings | |
| To thwart my lust for the sky, | 10 |
| And the mournful hunger of wingless things | |
| For the visions that die. | | | | |
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