...the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That 's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest...careless rapture ! And though the fields look rough with hoary clew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower —...

...Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs^and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the...careless rapture ! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower, —...

...Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the...careless rapture! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little childrens' dower, —...

...the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dcwdrops, — at the bent spray's edge, — That 's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest...careless rapture ! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower, —...

...pipe and twitter — the bold blackbird, with his rich whistle — the "wise thrush," who Sings his song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture, The first fine careless rapture ; or sweet nightingale, whose note is, by day at least, anything but melancholy. All these sounds of...

...bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! And alter April, when May follows, And the white-throat builds,...never could recapture The first fine careless rapture. We may take as a pendant to this his picture of an Italian beach, from a poem also cited by Mr. Ruskin...

...Browning has given full evidence of his capacity to write of England. Take this lovely passage : — 'Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans...could recapture The first fine careless rapture.' Birds and poets are ancient allies, and birds have probably We recommend those who are now earnestly...

...England, now ! And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds and all the swallows ! 10 Hark where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans...over, Lest you should think he never could recapture 15 The first fine careless rapture ! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay...

...the swallows ; Hark where the blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field, and scatters to the clover Blossoms and dewdrops at the bent spray's...each song twice over, Lest you should think he never would recapture The first fine careless rapture. And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All...

...blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field, and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge— That's the wise thrush; he...over, Lest you should think he never could recapture 15 The first fine careless rapture! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay...