The boy's own book; a complete encylopedia of all the diversion, athletic, scientific and recreative, of boyhood and youth. (1834)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838, McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · Boston, Munroe and Francis; New York, C. S. Francis, 1834. · leaf 287
‘PIGEONS. … Aloft in air the rapid pigeon soars, The messenger, by turns, of joy and wo; But heedless ever of her high envoy, Even while cleaving yonder distant cloud, Her heart is fixed on home, and her loved young ; Thus does brute instinct in man’s hand become A mighty engine. THE life of this beautiful and…
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