. Home and school reciter; readings, declamations and plays, original compositions and choice selections of the best literature .. . ■a d a d ° d •r-l « i a a 2 ■h do d +> ■p d Ji QCS o si dft o ft * od .4 o f-c MODERN DIALOGUES AND PLAYS. 157 singing, and stands outside and out of sightto finish her song.) April.(Outside.)Pretty little threeSparrows in a tree,Light upon the wing;Though you cannot sing,You can chirp of Spring:Chirp of Spring to me,Sparrows, from your tree. Never mind the showers, Chirp about the flowers,While you build a nest:Straws from east and west,Feathers from your bre

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. Home and school reciter; readings, declamations and plays, original compositions and choice selections of the best literature .. . ■a d a d ° d •r-l « i a a 2 ■h do d +> ■p d Ji QCS o si dft o ft * od .4 o f-c MODERN DIALOGUES AND PLAYS. 157 singing, and stands outside and out of sightto finish her song.) April.(Outside.)Pretty little threeSparrows in a tree,Light upon the wing;Though you cannot sing,You can chirp of Spring:Chirp of Spring to me,Sparrows, from your tree. Never mind the showers, Chirp about the flowers,While you build a nest:Straws from east and west,Feathers from your breast, Make the snuggest bowers In a world of flowers. You must dart awayFrom the chosen spray, You intrusive thirdExtra little bird;Join the unwedded herd!These have done with play,And must work to-day. April. (Appearing at the open door.)Good-morrow and good-bye: if others fly,Of all the flying months youre the mostflying. hope and sweetness, Birth means dying,As wings and wind mean flying;So you and I and all things fly or die;And sometimes I sit sighing to think of meanwhile Ive a

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