...yellow ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, wandering ever, Like a wavelet on a river ; Year by year as seasons roll, , sweet solace of my soul ; Come where youthful lovers...of tuneful note That warble o'er field and flood, 0 give me the thrush with the speckled throat, The king of the ringing wood : For he sits upon the...

...objection, and is redolent of the free air and sunshine, and all the fragrance of the bursting spring : — Of all the birds of tuneful note That warble o'er field and flood, О give me the thrush witb the speckled throat, The king of the ringing wood. For lie sits upon the...

...careth for the flowers Will much more care for him. MARY HOWITT, 1800—1867. THE OLD GREY THRUSH. OF all the birds of tuneful note That warble o'er...the thrush with the speckled throat, The king of the singing wood ! For see, he sits on the topmost twig To carol forth his glee, And none can dance a merrier...

...careth for the flowers Will much more care for him. MARY HOWITT, 1800—1867. THE OLD GREY THRUSH. OF all the birds of tuneful note That warble o'er...the thrush with the speckled throat, The king of the singing wood ! For see, he sits on the topmost twig To carol forth his glee, And none can dance a merrier...

...forcibly to mind. As some of you may not know it, permit me to give part of the first stanza : — Of all the birds of tuneful note That warble o'er...the thrush with the speckled throat, The king of the singing wood ! For see, he sits on the topmost twig To carol forth his glee, And none can dance a merrier...

...forcibly to mind. As some of you may not know it, permit me to give part of the first stanza : — Of all the birds of tuneful note That warble o'er field and flood, 0, give me the thrush with the speckled throat, The king of the singing wood I For see, he sits on...