Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 357
LODGERS IN THE NEST. By Edith M. Thomas. No birds, they say, in last years nests!What, ho! but there are other guests !No songs they sing, no wings have they,—These quiet people dressed in gray. … My Lady Bird her nest did lineWith down of silkweed soft and fine;And here and there with dainty skillShe trimmed it with a lichen frill. A rose-bush blossom-ed at her door, And dropped pinkpetals on herfloor; But months ago awayshe flew, And all her well-fledged nestlings,too. And much…
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