 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 500 pages
...time to steal adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant1 cuckoo's tale; To hear the clamorous2 curlew call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate...swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdu'd of wing : Amusive birds ! — say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 304 pages
...to steal adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant 2 cuckoo's tale ; To hear the clamorous 3 curlew call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate...swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple, unsubdu'd of wing : Amusive birds ! — say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests... | |
 | 1910 - 508 pages
...pondering on this, and the other great question, Where do all the Puffins go to pass the winter ? " Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, When the frost rages and the tempests beat ? " Along the south coast between the foot of Ehiw and Aberdaron is a strip of rich country with good... | |
 | 604 pages
...curlew call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender tale relate ; To see the swallow skim the dark'niug plain, Belated, to support her infant train ; To mark the swift in rapid, giddy Dart round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, When the frost... | |
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When the still owl skims round the grassy mead, What time the timorous hare limps forth to feed ; Then be the time to steal adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's tale; To hear the clamorous... 
