Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . 1^ WILLIAM ALLINGHAM. ^^) THE LOVER AND BIRDS. Within a budding grove,In Aprils ear sang every bird his best,But not a song to pleasure my unrest,Or touch the tears unwept of bitter spake, methought, with pity, some as if in every wordOf every birdI listened, and replied as it behove. Screamed Chaffinch, Sweet, sweet, sweet !O bring my pretty love to meet me here! Chaffinch, quoth I, be dumb awhile, in fearThy darling prove no better than a

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Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . 1^ WILLIAM ALLINGHAM. ^^) THE LOVER AND BIRDS. Within a budding grove,In Aprils ear sang every bird his best,But not a song to pleasure my unrest,Or touch the tears unwept of bitter spake, methought, with pity, some as if in every wordOf every birdI listened, and replied as it behove. Screamed Chaffinch, Sweet, sweet, sweet !O bring my pretty love to meet me here! Chaffinch, quoth I, be dumb awhile, in fearThy darling prove no better than a cheat ;And never come, or fly when wintry days from a twigWith voice so bigThe little fowl his utterance did repeat. 239 ^ «0s4

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