...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, —Far...

...better said than these lines of Browning's about a thrush : — " Hark ! where my blossomed Pear tree in the hedge Leans to the field, and scatters on the...could recapture The first fine careless rapture." But there is one bird dearer to us than the thrush, and that is the swallow, which for some years past...

...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 dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower —...

...elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now! II. " And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat...fine careless rapture ! And though the fields look roujrh with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's...

...greenwood, When mavis and merle are singing !' How true, again, that Shakespeare-touch of Browning's : ' That's the wise thrush, he sings each song twice over,...never could recapture The first fine careless rapture !' That thrush sang in May, according to the poet's lovely verse ; but this year the birds began long...

...greenwood, When mavis and merle are singing !' How true, again, that Shakespeare-touch of Browning's : ' That's the wise thrush, he sings each song twice over,...never could recapture The first fine careless rapture !' That thrush sang in May, according to the poet's lovely verse ; but this year the birds began long...

...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 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, —...

...And after April, when May follows And the white-throat builds, and all the swallows ! Hark, where niy blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field...never could recapture The first fine careless rapture 1 And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, And will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups,...

...tiny creature's soulless splendour, a russet thrush poured out his song — the careful thrush who Sings each song twice over, Lest you should think...recapture The first fine careless rapture, . . . and whose song, when we are happy, is the song of our own hearts, and it is the bird who is hearkening,...