Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme. By Sara Coleridge. The Fourth Edition, with Many Cuts |
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THE RUNAWAYS.
The Nightingale, Swallow, and Swift,The Wrynecks, and Chiff-chaffs, and Plovers,
Their quarters in Autumn must shift,
Of cold winter weather no lovers.
The Cuckoo in April is heard,
Oh, then he's a merry “new comer;”
But he is a sun-loving bird,
And stays with us only in Summer.
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