Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 506
eir chitter and chatter? It is nt all play. Do they scold, do they fret at some boggle or blunder,As we fret, as we scold, day after day ? Do their hearts ever ache, I wonder, I wonder,At anything else than the danger that comes When some enemy threatens them over or under The great, leafy boughs… … But day after day I may wonder andwonder,And ask them no end of suchquestions as these,—With chitter, and chatter, now over,now under,The big, leafy boughs of the big,leafy trees, They dart and they skim, ith their bills full of plunder,But never a word of an answer\. K they give. And never a word…
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