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 53
fore, wherefore were they made, Ml dyed with rainbow light,All fashioned with supremest grace, Upspringing day and night:— Springing in valleys green and low. And on the mountains high.And in the silent wilderness Where no man passes by ? Our outward life requires them not— Then wherefore had they…