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" The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves. And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings... "
Independent Sixth Reader: Containing a Complete Treatise on Elocution, Both ... - Page 433
by James Madison Watson - 1875 - 472 pages
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Mosaics of Human Life

Elizabeth A. Thurston - 1866 - 320 pages
...till angels shout, As thou sit'st at the feet of God, victorious, Philip, my King! Miss Muloch. TTE sings to the wide world, and she to her nest ; In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best ? OUK BABY. T\ID you ever see our baby? •^ Little Tot; With her eyes so sparkling bright, And her...
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Chaucer's England, Volume 2

William Brighty Rands - 1869 - 352 pages
...a leaf or a blade too mean <3^ ^Q To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at the door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves,...— In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best ? ' In these lines we have the joy of nature and the liberality of nature ; but with what a difference...
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Chaucer's England, by Matthew Browne

William Brighty Rands - 1869 - 346 pages
...there's never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at the door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves,...— In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best ? ' In these lines we have the joy of nature and the liberality of nature ; but with what a difference...
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The Standard Fifth Reader: With a New Treatise on Elocution and an ..., Part 2

Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...in its chalice, And there 's never a leaf or blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace. u. The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the egg beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings ; He sings to the wide world,...
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Hours at Home, Volume 9

1869 - 588 pages
...o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives 212 213 His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, Aod the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings ; He sings to the wide world, she sings to her nest, — In the niee ear of -Nature which song is the best?" VTe mention but one...
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The Franklin Fifth Reader: For the Use of Public and Private Schools : with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pages
...reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives." A striking example of both qualities may be taken from the dialogue between " Old Shylock" and " Portia."...
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The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell, Volume 1

James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 340 pages
...in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best?...
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The Standard Fifth Reader, Volume 2

Epes Sargent - 1871 - 536 pages
...His mate feels the egg beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings ; O * He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best ? III. Now is the high-tide of the year, Comes flooding back, with a ripply cheer, Into every bare...
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The Ladies' Reader: Designed for the Use of Ladies' Schools and Family ...

John William Stanhope Hows - 1872 - 438 pages
...blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, A tilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined...deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the egg beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings ; He sings to the wide world,...
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Reading and Elocution: Theoretical and Practical

Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pages
...in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt...blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errnn With the deluge of summer it receives, His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart...
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