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 Sparrows and the Robin.
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The Sparrows and the Robin.
A Farmer had new thatch'd his cot;
Intelligence the sparrows got,
And voted one and all to go
A pillaging the glossy strow.
Intelligence the sparrows got,
And voted one and all to go
A pillaging the glossy strow.
A Robin, as they flew along,
They met, and ask'd to join the throng;
Who nought suspecting gave consent:
No harm he fear'd, for none he meant.
They met, and ask'd to join the throng;
Who nought suspecting gave consent:
No harm he fear'd, for none he meant.
They scarce their mischief had begun,
When spy'd the Farmer's watchful son,
Let fly a fatal shower of lead,
And all the roof with slaughter spread.
When spy'd the Farmer's watchful son,
Let fly a fatal shower of lead,
And all the roof with slaughter spread.
Poor Robin just had breath to say,
As bleeding in the crowd he lay,
My doom unjust ye Red-breasts weep,
And mind what company you keep.
As bleeding in the crowd he lay,
My doom unjust ye Red-breasts weep,
And mind what company you keep.
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