Select poems : being the literature prescribed for the junior matriculation and junior leaving examinations, 1900 . i^. THE GRKI-N- LINNET. 91 Leave to the Xiglitingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine, Whence tliou dost pour upon the world a flood 15 Of harmony, with instinct more divine ; Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and H^.me. %^Au 10 THE GREEN LINXET. Beneath these fruit-tree Ijoughs that shedTheir snow-white blossoms on my head,With brightest sunshine round me spread Of springs unclouded weather,In this sequesterd no
Select poems : being the literature prescribed for the junior matriculation and junior leaving examinations, 1900 . i^. THE GRKI-N- LINNET. 91 Leave to the Xiglitingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine, Whence tliou dost pour upon the world a flood 15 Of harmony, with instinct more divine ; Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and H^.me. %^Au 10 THE GREEN LINXET. Beneath these fruit-tree Ijoughs that shedTheir snow-white blossoms on my head,With brightest sunshine round me spread Of springs unclouded weather,In this sequesterd nook how sweetTo sit upon my orchard-seat !And flowers and birds once more to greet, My lust years friends together. One have I markd, the happiest guestIn all this covert of the blest:Hail to Thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion !Thou,. Linnet ! in thy green arrayPresiding spirit here to-dayDost lead the revels of the May ; ] r, And this is thy dominion. While birds, and butterflies, and flowers,Make all one band of paramours,Thou, ranging up and down the bowers, Art sole in thy employment; 20 A Life
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