Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898 · Boston : [J. Wilson & Son, University Press] · leaf 81
left, or other projDerty. The bird and cage they both were his ; Twas my sons bird ; and neat and trimHe kept it: many voyages His singing-bird hath gone with him.When last he sailed he left the bird behind ;As it might be, perhaps, from bodings of his mind. He to a fellow-lodgers care Had left it… … THE LITTLE GIRUS LAMENT. Is Heaven a long way off, mother ? I watch through all the day,To sec my father coming back And meet him on the way. And when the night comes on I standWhere once I used to wait, To see him coming from the fieldsAnd meet him at tlie gate ; Then I used to put my hand in…
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