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 54
THE STOCK-DOVE. Tell me, Stock-dove, wherefore thou artmoaning ever,Filhng all the greenwood with thyplaint of woe ? I moan not, says the Stock-dove ; I praisethe great, good GiverOf life and love and sunshine in the bestway that I know. 48 THE STOCK-DOVE. I learned my note in Eden, when young was…