. A year with the birds . ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK The Bobolink The Goldfinch The Yellow Warbler The Maryland Yellow-Throat The Red-Eyed Vireo The Wood Pewee The Kingbird 143 The Bobolink No poet can sing as he would of you! No trained musician, with hearing true, Can catch each wonderful liquid note That bubbles and gurgles and wells from your throat. He can listen with soul enthralled, and yield To the spell of the roadside or the field Where you dart about, and perch and swing On grass or stalk. With abandon you wing Over the meadows with showers impearled, Scattering joy abroad in the world.
. A year with the birds . ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK The Bobolink The Goldfinch The Yellow Warbler The Maryland Yellow-Throat The Red-Eyed Vireo The Wood Pewee The Kingbird 143 The Bobolink No poet can sing as he would of you! No trained musician, with hearing true, Can catch each wonderful liquid note That bubbles and gurgles and wells from your throat. He can listen with soul enthralled, and yield To the spell of the roadside or the field Where you dart about, and perch and swing On grass or stalk. With abandon you wing Over the meadows with showers impearled, Scattering joy abroad in the world. Flitting, alighting, you sing all day Till the golden west grows softest gray. A. E. B. 144. BOBOLINK * Robert of Lincoln Merrily swinging on brier and weed,Near to the nest of his little dame,Over the mountain-side or mead,Robert of Lincoln is telling his name:Bob-o-link, bob-o-link,Spink, spank, spink;Snug and safe is that nest of among the siunmer , chee, chee. Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding-coat;White are his shoulders and white his him call in his merry note:Bob-o-link, bob-o-link,Spink, spank, spink;Look, what a nice new coat is there was never a bird so , chee, chee. Robert of Lincolns Quaker wife, Pretty and quiet, with plain brown at home a patient life,Broods in the grass while her husband sings:Bob-o-link, bob-o-link,Spink, spank, spink;Brood, kind creature; you need not fearThieves and robbers while I am , chee, chee. 145 Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only and prince of braggarts is he,Pouring boasts from his little t
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