Читать книгу The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 473, January 29, 1831 - Various - Страница 3
THE STRAND, ANCIENT AND MODERN
HALCYON DAYS
Оглавление(To the Editor.)
In illustration of your correspondent P.T.W.'s article, entitled "Halcyon Days," in No. 471, I beg to furnish you with the following, from a friend's album:—
There is a bird, a little bird, of plumage bright and gay,
Free as the tenants of the sea, free as its finny prey;
In wintry storms she lays her eggs, the briny sands among,
And twice seven days sweet calms succeed where billows roared along.
These are the sailor's Halcyon Days, when pleasure's on the main;
The young ones hatched, the storm appears, and Boreas rules again.
H.H.C.
