A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
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The Boy and the Birds.
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The Boy and the Birds.
One Christmas holiday a lad,
Now quit of school, and free to gad,
From out the chimney took his gun,
And thro' the hoary meadows run.
Now quit of school, and free to gad,
From out the chimney took his gun,
And thro' the hoary meadows run.
The thrush resigns it's tuneful breath
The whistling Blackbird gasping death;
New stains the friendly Robin mark,
Nor saves it's early note the Lark.
When thus exclaims the feather'd train,
Why this delight in giving pain?
The Hawk each grove with slaughter fills,
Yet never for diversion kills!
The whistling Blackbird gasping death;
New stains the friendly Robin mark,
Nor saves it's early note the Lark.
When thus exclaims the feather'd train,
Why this delight in giving pain?
The Hawk each grove with slaughter fills,
Yet never for diversion kills!
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