. A year with the birds . The Snowfiake orSnow Bunting- 27 The Snowflake or Snow Bunting Across the fields we see them go—Old brown leaves, driven by the snow. Are not the dead leaves clinging fastTo oak or beech, or from the blastAll deeply hidden ? Can it beThat they are whirling rapidly? Ah! Now we hear a sharp, clear ChurAs they speed onward with a whir;Upon the snow they settle down,All white and black and leafy brown. Theyre but a gentle Snowflake band;Their Mother Earth has laid a handOn head and throat and soft white dressOf each, and left a brown impress. While theyre our winter guest
. A year with the birds . The Snowfiake orSnow Bunting- 27 The Snowflake or Snow Bunting Across the fields we see them go—Old brown leaves, driven by the snow. Are not the dead leaves clinging fastTo oak or beech, or from the blastAll deeply hidden ? Can it beThat they are whirling rapidly? Ah! Now we hear a sharp, clear ChurAs they speed onward with a whir;Upon the snow they settle down,All white and black and leafy brown. Theyre but a gentle Snowflake band;Their Mother Earth has laid a handOn head and throat and soft white dressOf each, and left a brown impress. While theyre our winter guests, they wearThese russet coats; but when they fareTo Arctic lands, their summer robes of black-and-white they roam. A. E. B. 28. n rRVfC- ^^ClKif|^t. SNOWFLAKE The Tree Sparrow or Winter Chippy The Tree Sparrow or Winter Chippy When lordly Winter stalks abroad, With trailing robes of snow,That hide the lovely tender things His icy breath lays low;When grasses, shrubs and hardy weeds Hold high their heads, and mockTheir tyrant lord,—from Northland woods There comes a merry flockOf feathered songsters, soft and brown, With a dark spot on each breast;They sway on stalk of golden-rod Above a snowdrifts voices ring like tinkling bells Beneath the wintry April, when with joyous songs Back to the North they fly. A. E. B. 30
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