Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 597
564 APRIL AND MAY. [May, Birds on the boughs before the budsBegin to burst in the spring, Bending their heads to the April floods,Too much out of breath to sing! … They chirp, Hey-day ! How the rain comes down! Comrades, cuddle together!Cling to the bark so rough and brown, ^ For this is April weather. Oh, the warm, beautiful, drenching rain!I dont mind it, do you ?Soon will the sky be clear again.Smiling, and fresh, and blue. Sweet and sparkling is every…
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