NESTLINGS.
I found a little empty neat, Softrlined with fur and feather, Which balls of yellow fluff had pressed Before the cold, white weather. In this wee nest, high on the tree, Above the fields of clover, A blue-bird sang right merrily, But ere sweet May was over Four nestlings slumbered 'neath her wing, And id Tier mother gladness, From morn till even she would singAdieu to days of sadness. But summer skies must change their hue, Hot, gong-filled nights grow rarer, And one by one the nestlings flew To warmer climes and fairer. They spread their little wings, and left Cold English fields behind them, But on© — » mother-bird — bereft Of children, flew tt find them. ■ • • I hay* a nestling, and the nest Employed my love and leisure; God let th« day be far away Ere it snail lo3e its treasure f — W. FHAKCIS CHAJIBEBa.
September, 1902.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2631, 17 September 1902, Page 59
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160NESTLINGS. Otago Witness, Issue 2631, 17 September 1902, Page 59
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