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The poetical works of William Lisle Bowles

... with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan

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LITTLE MARY'S LINNET.

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Dear Mary, if thy little bird
Should, all the winter long,
Pleased from the window to be heard,
Repay thee with a song;

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A lesson let it still convey
To all with sense endued;
And such the voice, oh! let it say,
The still small voice of love.