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 Sparrows.
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The Boy and the Sparrows.
A Boy along the frozen plain
Was scatt'ring heaps of chaffy grain;
The work a sparrow quickly views,
And joyful thus imparts the news.
Was scatt'ring heaps of chaffy grain;
The work a sparrow quickly views,
And joyful thus imparts the news.
See, brothers, see, how rare a boon:
That hand may plenty ever crown:
Make ready for the rich repast,
Who now needs care for winter's blast.
That hand may plenty ever crown:
Make ready for the rich repast,
Who now needs care for winter's blast.
An antient Dam makes this reply,
You know him not so well as I:
This giver's Jack: then who wou'd chuse,
But the suspicious gift refuse?
It's ten to one the rogue prepares
Some falling sieve or tangling hairs,
Or in some hole designs to wait
With his sad instrument of sate.
You know him not so well as I:
This giver's Jack: then who wou'd chuse,
But the suspicious gift refuse?
It's ten to one the rogue prepares
Some falling sieve or tangling hairs,
Or in some hole designs to wait
With his sad instrument of sate.
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