Lyra Pastoralis Songs of Nature, Church, and Home: By Richard Wilton |
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The Chiff-Chaff's Message,
heard in March |
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The Chiff-Chaff's Message, heard in March
“Cheer up, cheer up!” it seems to say,
As lighting on some leafless spray,
It shakes its dissyllabic song,
And with small beak, but courage strong,
Charges the East-wind all the day.
As lighting on some leafless spray,
It shakes its dissyllabic song,
And with small beak, but courage strong,
Charges the East-wind all the day.
“Soon will the Swallow round you play,
The Nightingale be on its way,
Blue skies and gladness come ere long,
Cheer up, cheer up!”
The Nightingale be on its way,
Blue skies and gladness come ere long,
Cheer up, cheer up!”
Such happy voice be mine, I pray,
Bleak hours to bless with sunny ray,
A comfort life's rough paths among;
Be mine to lighten pain and wrong,
Still letting fall a hopeful lay—
Cheer up, cheer up!
Bleak hours to bless with sunny ray,
A comfort life's rough paths among;
Be mine to lighten pain and wrong,
Still letting fall a hopeful lay—
Cheer up, cheer up!
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