...to 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,...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,...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...

...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, Lest...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...

...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...! 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 brighter...

...— now ! n. And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows I Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans...! 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 brighter...

...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...! 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 brighter...

...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...never could recapture The first fine careless rapture !" than one can conceive Mr. Browning writing of the same bird's song — " The embowered throstle's...

...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...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,...

...whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheal Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the...! 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 brighter...