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Through the year with birds and poets [poems]
Through the year with birds and poets - poems Author:Sarah Williams Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BIRDS Darlings of children and of bard. Perfect kinds by vice unmarrcd, All of worth and beauty set Gems in Nature's cabinet: These the fables she esteems Rea... more »lity most like to dreams. Welcome back, you little nations, Far-travelled in the South plantations ; Bring your music and rhythmic flight, Your colors for our eye's delight: Freely nestle in our roof, Weave your chamber weather-proof; And your enchanting manners bring And your autumnal gathering. Exchange in conclave general Greetings kind to each and all, Conscious each of duty done And unstained as the sun. Nature. — Ralph WALDO Emerson. chapter{Section 4A few lonely birds. Of those that in this northern clime remain Throughout the year, and in the dawn of spring, At pleasant noon, from their unknown retreat Come suddenly to view with lively notes ; Or those that soonest to this clime return From warmer regions, in thick groves were seen, But with their feathers ruffled, and despoiled Of all their glossy lustre, sitting mute. Or only skipping, with a single chirp. In quest of food. The Age of Benevolence. — Carlos WlLCOX. / heard the woodpecker pecking, The bluebird tenderly sing; I turned and looked out of the window. And lo, it was spring ! I forget my old age and grow youthful, Bathing in wind-tides of spring. When I hear the woodpecker pecking, The first bluebird sing. At the Window. — Maurice Thompson. From spot to spot The merry carol of the bluebird sounds, The gay-wing'J messenger, the spring semis out To tell us of her coming. The First Violet. — Alfred Billings Street. Hark ! ' Tis the bluebird's venturous strain High on the old fringed elm at the gate : Sweet-voiced, valiant on the swaying bough. Alert, elate, Dodging the fitful spits of snow, New Eng...« less