. Picture fables . STORKS. JHILD. Now tell me, dear Storks, what do you intend,That towards the sunlight your way you wend ? PORKS. All around us is cold and drear, Therefore we hasten away from here. JHILD. Then fly away on your light wings, fly, But mind you come back, Storks, by and by. Few days had passd since the Storks had flown, Before the winter came driving on; He saw their nest, on the roof-tree old, And piled it with snow-feathers, white and cold ; And oh, t was a bleak and a cheerless nest: No stork there in comfort could take his rest. 49 H ^ m- 1ft1* \jp^j®- ,.--x^. STORKS. THE s
. Picture fables . STORKS. JHILD. Now tell me, dear Storks, what do you intend,That towards the sunlight your way you wend ? PORKS. All around us is cold and drear, Therefore we hasten away from here. JHILD. Then fly away on your light wings, fly, But mind you come back, Storks, by and by. Few days had passd since the Storks had flown, Before the winter came driving on; He saw their nest, on the roof-tree old, And piled it with snow-feathers, white and cold ; And oh, t was a bleak and a cheerless nest: No stork there in comfort could take his rest. 49 H ^ m- 1ft1* \jp^j®- ,.--x^. STORKS. THE sun shines bright, the summers near,And, as we promised, we Storks are here;Though we were compelld afar to roam,We forgot not the nest we d left at see it still clings where last year it stood ;Well clean it, and live there, and raise our brood. With straw and with wood did they mend it well,How gladly they labourd no tongue can tell;Dame Stork during three weeks sat thereon,Then heard the neighbours a piping were six little Storks, a noisy brood, Who opend their hungry bills for food. 50
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