...new voice of spring to hear, And imitates thy lay. What time the pea puts on the bloom Thou flyest thy vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands, Another...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year ! Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee ! We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe,...

...imitates thy lay. What time the pea puts on the bloom, Thou fliest thy vocal vale ; 10 FATHER WILLIAM. An annual guest in other lands, Another Spring to...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee ! We'd make with joyful wing Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions...

...through the wood, To pull the primrose gay, Starts the new voice of spring to hear, And imitates thy lay. Sweet bird, thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...winter in thy year. O could I fly, I'd fly with thee, And make, with joyous wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring." GRASSHOPPER-LARK—...

...puts ou the bloom, Thou fliest thy vocal vale ; 10 FATHER WILLIAM. An annual guest in other lauds, Another Spring to hail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee ! We'd niJikf with joyful wing Our annual visit o'er the globe,...

...tastes and habits. The poet refers to this when he says, in his pretty address to the cuckoo, — " Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...sorrow in thy song, '•, No winter in thy year." It is only the male cuckoo, however, whose voice is here spoken of : the note of the female differs...

...bloom, Thou fliest thy vocal vale ; An annual guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. Sweet bird I thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. Oh ! could I fly, I 'd fly with thee I We'd make with joyful wing Our annual visit o'er the globe,...

...! rough power ; Whom labour still attends, and sweat, and pain. — Thomson. Sweet bird ! thy bow'r is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; » Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. — Logan. Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, ' Sister spirit, come away !' What is this absorbs me...

...thy curious voice to hear, And imitates thy lay. Soon as the pea puts on the bloom, Thou fly'st the vocal vale ; An annual guest in other lands, Another...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. О ! could I fly, I'd fly with thee ; We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe,...

...is over and gone ; the flowers appear on the earth, and the time of the singing of birds is come." " Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year!" The Cuckoo is a bird of much elegance : the plumage of the superior parts is of a chaste bluishgrey...

...Cnckoo, for his, we think with Dr. Mackclvic, the verses were. Sweet bird, thy bovver ii ever preen, Thy sky is ever clear, Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, ?io winter in thy yeur. about (followed, through a strange fascination, by a bird of another race,...