Birds and flowers, or, Lays and lyrics of rural life (1873)
Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888, Giacomelli, Hector, 1822-1904 · London ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons · leaf 115
Do we wake; or do we sleep; Go our fancies in a crowdAfter many a dull care— Birds are singing loud !Sing then, linnet; sing then, wren ; Merle and mavis, sing your fill; 108 BIRDS. And thou, rapturous skylark,Sing and soar up from the hill! Sing, O nightingale, and pourOut for us sweet fancies new…
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