Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 395
the wild rose awakens.But then it is June, and we are talking of spring. summer, long after most other birds are silent, orhave flown away. The songsters gather in throngs, with their gavor tender ballads, each so different from the rest,-wren, swallow, linnet, thrush, oriole, —and none ofthem… … REACHING TOWARD US FROM SHRUB OR SPRAY. Faster than the flowers, come the birds. Asearly as the bluebird, honest Robin Redbreast andhis wife are here, hopping up and down the garden-walk, turning their heads this way and that, asthey consider their prospects for house-building.High in the leafless…
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