American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 447
nimals and birds. And going a little lower down in thescale of animal life, here is his illustration to Elizabeth A. Daviss Only a Cricket ChirpingAway, which it would be a pity to dissever from the verses. I m only a cricket chirping away,In the fading light of an autumn day.When the flowers are… … ■■)•■-/~t^?-fpj®§^: The Cricket. Drawn by Hayden. When friends draw near with the lamps alight;And I tell my tales in the humblest cot.And sing of the joys that are half forgot.For though only a cricket chirping away,In the fading light of an autumn day,I come and go with my song of cheer,To hush…
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