 | James Cornwell - 1870 - 152 Seiten
...morn a merry thrush Sing hymns of rapture, while I drank the sound With joy — and oft an unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day ; How true she warped the moss to form her nest, A nd modelled it within with wood and clay. And by and by, like heathbells gilt with dew, There lay... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1870 - 156 Seiten
...mom a merry thrush Sing hymns of rapture, while I drank the sound With joy — and oft an unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day ; How true she warped the moss to form her nest, J nd modelled it within with wood and clay. And by and by, like heathbells gilt with dew, There lay... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1874 - 336 Seiten
...morn a merry thrush . Sing hymns of rapture, while I drank the sound With joy ; and oft, an unintmding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day,...moss to form her nest, And modelled it within with wool and clay. And by-and-by, like heath-bells gilt with dew, There lay her shining eggs as bright... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 280 Seiten
...morn a merry thrush Sing hymns of rapture, while I drank the sound With joy ; and oft, an unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day, How true she warp'd the moss to form her nest, And modell'd it within with wool and clay. And by-and-by, like heath-bells... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli - 1878 - 472 Seiten
...overhung a mole-hill, large and round, I heard from morn to eve a merry thrush Sing hymns of rapture I watched her secret toils from day to day ; How true...nest, And modelled it within with wood and clay." The birds of the marshes construct their nests on little islets among the reeds, and frequently in... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 Seiten
...molehill large and round, '793--864 I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the sound With joy ; and, often an intruding...day to day, — How true she warped the moss to form a nest, And modelled it within with wood and clay ; And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew,... | |
 | 1880 - 296 Seiten
...morn a merry thrush Sing hymns of rapture, while I drank the sound With joy ; and oft, an unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day,...moss to form her nest, And modelled it within with wool and clay. And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew, There lay her shining eggs as bright... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 Seiten
...molehill large and round, 179^864 I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the sound With joy ; and, often an intruding...day to day,— How true she warped the moss to form a nest, And modelled it within with wood and clay ; And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 Seiten
...merry thrush Sing hyuius of rapture, while I drank the sound With joy — anil oft, an uuintrndiug 0 L iiest, And modelled it within with wood and clay. And by-aml-by, like heath-bells gilt with dew, There... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - 1882 - 280 Seiten
...overhung a molehill large and round, I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the sound With joy ; and, often an intruding...day to day, — How true she warped the moss to form a nest, And modelled it within with wood and clay ; And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew,... | |
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WITHIN a thick and spreading hawthorn bush That overhung a mole-hill large and round, I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush Sing hymns... 
