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CHAPTER VIII.

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BIRDS IN SPRING.

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1. Listen! What a sudden rustle

Fills the air!

All the birds are in a bustle

Everywhere.

Such a ceaseless croon and twitter

Overhead!

Such a flash of wings that glitter

Wide outspread!

2. Far away I hear a drumming,

Tap, tap, tap!

Can the woodpecker be coming

After sap?

Butterflies are hovering over,

Swarms on swarms,

Yonder meadow-patch of clover

Like snow-storms.

3. Through the vibrant air a-tingle

Buzzingly,

Throbs and o'er me darts a single

Bumble-bee.

Lissom swayings make the willows

One bright sheen,

Which the breeze puffs out in billows

Foaming green.

Birds in Spring.

4. From the marshy brook that's smoking

In the fog,

I can catch the crool and croaking

Of a frog.

Dogwood stars the slopes are studding,

And I see

Blooms upon the purple-budding

Judas-tree.

5. Aspen-tassels thick are dropping

All about,

And the alder-leaves are cropping

Broader out;

Mouse-ear tufts the hawthorn sprinkle,

Edged with rose;

The park-bed of periwinkle

Fresher grows.

6. Up and down the midges dancing

On the grass:

How their gauzy wings are glancing

As they pass!

What does all this haste and hurry

Mean, I pray—

All this out-door flush and flurry

Seen to-day?

This presaging stir and humming,

Thrill and call?

Mean? It means that spring is coming;

That is all!

Margaret J. Preston.