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# To a Bird (1888)

Bright little warbler of the air, The world to thee, I ween, is fair; And free thy life from shade of care So gaily dost thou sing.
While from thy happy throat is sent That flood of song in ravishment, Thou shamest me without intent —
Sad mourner that I be.
To one who knows not grief nor care I doubt me not this world is fair, And “pretty” “pretty” everywhere As thou dost iterate.
But birdie dear, didst thou but see The world as it appears to me, Then “pretty” “pretty” might not be The burden of thy song.
But oh! could I like thee arise
And wing my way toward the skies, Not here, 'mid human miseries,
One moment would I dwell.
But once released from bonds of clay
I'd upward soar till thy sweet lay
Did in the distance melt away
Amidst an awful space.
I'd pause not till, through shining breach,
I'd catch, in songs that seraphs teach,
Notes only angel voices reach —
Where my loved one is gone.
Ah, birdie! were it thine to know
The grief that makes my sad tears flow
Thou couldst not sweetly warble so,
Thy little heart would break.
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# To a Blue Flower

First published in The Sun [Sydney], 3 September 1911
I WOULD be dismal with all the fine pearls of the crown of a king; But I can talk plainly to you, you little blue flower of the Spring!
Here in the heart of September the world that I walk in is full Of the hot happy sound of the shearing, the rude heavy scent of the wool.
Soon would I tire of all riches or honours or power that they fling; But you are my own, of my own folk, you little blue flower of the Spring!
I was around by the cherries to-day; all the cherries are pale: The world is a woman in velvet: the air is the colour of ale.
I would be dismal with all the fine pearls of the crown of a king; But I can give love-talk to you, you little blue flower of the Spring!
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# To a Butterfly Resting on a Skull

* To a Butterfly Resting on a Skull, in The Literary Gazette, 1823.
* Lines to a Butterfly Resting on a Skull, in Scenes and Hymns of Life, with Other Religious Poems (Miscellaneous Poems), 1834.
# The Zoologist/4th series, vol 3 (1899)/Issue 694

Contents :
| | | PAGE |
| Millar, Alfred D. | Zoological Notes from Natal (with Plate I) | 145 |
| Aplin, Oliver Vernon | Notes on the Birds of Belgium | 149 |
| Basil Davies | Fecundity in Each Avine Species, Varying According to Accidents of Locality | 164 |
| Fox, William Storrs | The Coloration of British Birds and Their Eggs | 168 |
| Rey, Dr. Eugène | What is the Reason of the Great Variation in Cuckoos' Eggs? | 176 |
| | Notes and Queries | 179 |
| | Notices of New Books | 185 |
| | Editorial Gleanings | 191 |
# To the Cuckoo (Logan)

This poem was first published in Poems on Several Occasions (1770), a collection of poems by Michael Bruce. The collection was edited by Logan, who added poems by other authors, writing that "The reader of taste will easily distinguish them from those of Mr Bruce, without their being particularized by any mark." Logan later included "Ode to the Cuckoo" in Poems (1781), a collection of his own works; some scholars, however, credit Bruce with the authorship of the poem.
* "The Cuckoo" in A First Series of Hymns and Songs (1853).
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# To the Cuckoo (Wordsworth, "Not the whole warbling grove in concert heard")

From the Complete Poetical Works, 1827.
Not the whole warbling grove in concert heard When sunshine follows shower, the breast can thrill Like the first summons, Cuckoo! of thy bill, With its twin notes inseparably paired. The captive 'mid damp vaults unsunned, unaired, Measuring the periods of his lonely doom, That cry can reach; and to the sick man's room Sends gladness, by no languid smile declared. The lordly eagle-race through hostile search May perish; time may come when never more The wilderness shall hear the lion roar; But, long as cock shall crow from household perch To rouse the dawn, soft gales shall speed thy wing, And thy erratic voice be faithful to the Spring!
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# To the Chimera

Unknown chimera, take us, for we tire Amid the known monotony of things! Descend, and bearing sunward with bright wings Our mournful weariness and sad desire,
Pause not to prove the opal shores untrod, Below thee fading, and the fields of rose; Till on thy horns of planished silver flows The sanguine light of Edens lost to God.
There, for the weary sense insatiate, Primeval sleep from towering scarlet blooms Would fall in slow and infinite perfumes;
Or we could leave thy crystal wings elate– Riding the pagan plain with knees that press The golden flanks of some great centauress.
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# To the Committee of the Cayley Portrait Fund

From the obituary by Professor Peter Guthrie Tait, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 10 (1878-80), 331-339. The verses refer to subjects investigated by the mathematician Arthur Cayley.
TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE CAYLEY PORTRAIT FUND.
1874.
O wretched race of men, to space confined ! What honour shall ye pay to him whose mind To that which lies beyond hath penetrated ! The symbols he hath formed shall sound his praise, And lead him on through unimagined ways To conquests new in worlds not yet created.
First, ye determinants in ordered row And massive column ranged before him go, To form a phalanx for his safe protection. Ye powers of the nth roots of - 1, Around his head in endless cycles run, As disembodied spirits of direction.
And yon ye undevelopable scroles, Above the host wave your emblazoned rolls, Ruled for the record of his bright inventions. Ye cubic surfaces, by threes and nines, Draw round his camp your seven-and-twenty lines, The seal of Solomon in three dimensions.
March on, symbolic host, with step sublime, Up to the flaming bounds of space and time; There halt, until, by Dickenson depicted In two dimensions, we the form may trace Of him whose mind, too large for vulgar space, In n dimensions flourished unrestricted.
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# To the Cuckoo (Logan, unsourced)

The authorship of the beautiful ode is contested, some authorities claiming it for Michael Bruce and others for the Rev. John Logan, who ed. Bruce's works.
Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove!  Thou messenger of Spring! Now Heaven repairs thy rural seat,  And woods thy welcome ring.
What time the daisy decks the green,  Thy certain voice we hear: Hast thou a star to guide thy path,  Or mark the rolling year?
Delightful visitant! with thee  I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet  From birds among the bowers.
The schoolboy, wand'ring through the wood  To pull the primrose gay, Starts, the new voice of Spring to hear,  And imitates thy lay.
What time the pea puts on the bloom,  Thou fli'st thy vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands,  Another Spring to hail.
Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green,  Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,  No Winter in thy year!
O could I fly, I'd fly with thee!  We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe,  Companions of the Spring.
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# To the Children of the Commonwealth

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A radio broadcast on the BBC delivered on 13 October 1940
In wishing you all 'good evening' I feel that I am speaking to friends and companions who have shared with my sister and myself many a happy Children's Hour.
Thousands of you in this country have had to leave your homes and be separated from your fathers and mothers. My sister Margaret Rose and I feel so much for you as we know from experience what it means to be away from those we love most of all.
To you, living in new surroundings, we send a message of true sympathy and at the same time we would like to thank the kind people who have welcomed you to their homes in the country.
All of us children who are still at home think continually of our friends and relations who have gone overseas - who have travelled thousands of miles to find a wartime home and a kindly welcome in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States of America.
My sister and I feel we know quite a lot about these countries. Our father and mother have so often talked to us of their visits to different parts of the world. So it is not difficult for us to picture the sort of life you are all leading, and to think of all the new sights you must be seeing, and the adventures you must be having.
But I am sure that you, too, are often thinking of the Old Country. I know you won't forget us; it is just because we are not forgetting you that I want, on behalf of all the children at home, to send you our love and best wishes - to you and to your kind hosts as well.
Before I finish I can truthfully say to you all that we children at home are full of cheerfulness and courage. We are trying to do all we can to help our gallant sailors, soldiers and airmen, and we are trying, too, to bear our own share of the danger and sadness of war.
We know, everyone of us, that in the end all will be well; for God will care for us and give us victory and peace. And when peace comes, remember it will be for us, the children of today, to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place.
My sister is by my side and we are both going to say goodnight to you.
Come on, Margaret.
Goodnight, children.
Goodnight, and good luck to you all.
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# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Auian/Fable 13

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Numbered 340 in the Perry Index. Click here to create an annotated version of this text.
¶ The xiij fable is of the hunter and of the tygre
Erse is the stroke of a tonge / than the stroke of a spere as hit appiereth by this fable / Of a hunter / whiche with his arowes hurted the wyld beestes / in suche wyse that none scaped fro hym / to the whiche bestes a tygre fyers and hard sayd in this manere / Be not aferd / For I shalle kepe yow well / And as the Tygre came in to the wode / the hunter was hyd within a busshe / the whiche whan he sawe passe the tygre before the busshe / he shote at hym an arowe / and hytte hym on the thye / wherfore the tygre was gretely abasshed And wepynge and sore syghynge sayd to the other beestes / I wote not from whens this cometh to me / ¶ And whanne the foxe sawe hym soo gretely abasshed / al lawhynge sayd to hym / Ha a tygre / thow arte so myghty and so stronge / And thenne the tygre sayd to hym / My strengthe auaylled me not at that tyme / For none may kepe hym self fro treason And therfore some secrete is here / whiche I knewe not before But notwithstandynge this I maye wel conceyue / that there is no wors arowe / ​ne that letteth more the man / than tharowe whiche is shotte fro the euyll tongue / For whanne som persone profereth or layth som wordes in a felauship / of som men of a honest & good lyf / alle the felauship supposeth that that whiche this euylle tongue hath sayd be trewe / be hit trewe or not / how be it that it be but lesynge / but notwithstondynge the good man shalle euer be wounded of that same arowe / whiche wound shalle be Incurable / And yf hit were a stroke of a spere / hit myght be by the Cyrurgyen heled / but the stroke of an euylle tongue may not be heled / by cause that Incontynent as the word is profered or sayd / he that hath sayd hit / is no more mayster of hit / And for this cause the stroke of a tongue is Incurable and withoute guaryson
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# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Auian/Fable 15

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Numbered 304 in the Perry Index. Click here to create an annotated version of this text.
¶ The xv fable is of the busshe / and of the aubyer tree
One for his beaute ought not to despreyse some other / For somtyme suche one is fayre that soone wexeth lothely and fowle / and to hyghe falleth vnto lowe / as it apperyth by this fable / Of a fayr tree whiche mocqued and scorned a lytyl busshe / and sayd / ¶ Seest thow not / my fayre fourme and my fayre fygure / And that of me men byldeth fayre edefyces as palays and castellis / galeyes & other shippes for to saylle on the see / And as he auaunced & preysed hym self thus / came there a labourer with his axe for to hewe and smyte hym to the ground / And as the labourer smote vpon the fayre tree / the busshe sayd / Certaynly my broder yf now thow were as lytel / as I am / men shold not hewe ne smyte the doune to the erthe / And therfore none oughte to reioysshe hym self of his worship / For suche is now in grete honour and worship / that herafter shalle falle in to grete vytupere shame and dishonour
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# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Auian/Fable 2

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Numbered 230 in the Perry Index. Click here to create an annotated version of this text.
¶ The second fable is of the tortose and of the other byrdes
E that enhaunceth hym self more than he oughte to do To hym oughte not to come noo good / As hit appiereth by this present fable / Of a tortose / whiche said to the byrdes / yf ye lyft me vp wel hyghe fro the ground to the ayer I shalle sewe to yow grete plente of precius stones / And the Egle toke her and bare her so hyghe / that she myghte not see the erthe / And the Egle sayd to her shewe me now these precius stones that thow promyset to shewe to me / And by cause that the tortose myght not see in the erthe / and that the Egle knewe wel that he was deceyued / thrested his clowes in to the tortoses bely / and kylled hit / For he that wylle haue and gete worship and glorye may not haue hit withoute grete laboure / Therfore hit is better and more sure / to kepe hym lowely than to enhaunce hym self on hyghe / and after to deye shamefully and myserably /  ¶ For men sayn comynly / who so mounteth hyher / than he shold / he falleth lower than he wold
# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Auian/Fable 18

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Numbered 581 in the Perry Index. Click here to create an annotated version of this text.
¶ The xviij fable is of the theef / and of the child whiche wepte
E is a fole that putteth his good in jeopardy to lese it for to gete & haue som others good / as it appereth by this fable of a theef whiche fond a child wepynge besyde a welle / of whom the theef dyde aske why he wepte / & the child answerd to hym I wepe / by cause that I haue lete falle within this welle a loket of gold / & thenne the theef toke of his clothes / & sette them on the ground and wente doune in to the welle / And as he was doune the child toke his gowne & lefte hym within the welle / And thus for couetyse to wynne / he lost his gowne / For suche supposen to wynne somtyme whiche lesen / And therfore none ought to wysshe that / that he hath not / to thende that he leseth not that / that he hath / For of the thynge wrongfully and euylle goten / the thyrd heyre shalle neuer be possessour of hit.
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# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Auian/Fable 16

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Numbered 18 in the Perry Index. Click here to create an annotated version of this text.
¶ The xvj fable is of the fyssher / and of the lytyl fysshe
En ought not to leue that thynge whiche is sure & certayne / for hope to haue the vncertayn / as to vs reherceth this fable of a fysshier whiche with his lyne toke a lytyll fysshe whiche sayd to hym / My frend I pray the / doo to me none euylle / ne putte me not to dethe / For now I am nought / for to be eten / but whanne I shalle be grete / yf thow come ageyne hyther / of me shalt thow mowe haue grete auaylle / For thenne I shalle goo with the good whyle / And the Fyssher sayd to the fysshe . Syn I hold the now / thou shalt not scape fro me / For grete foly hit were to me for to seke the here another tyme / For men ought not to lete goo that / of what they be sure of / hopynge to haue afterwards that that they haue not and whiche is vncertayne.
# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Auian/Fable 19

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Numbered 157 in the Perry Index. Click here to create an annotated version of this text.
¶ The xix fable is of the lyon and of the gote
e is wyse that can kepe hym self from the wyly and fals / as hit appereth by this fable / Of a lyon / whiche ones mette with a gote / whiche was vpon a montayne And whanne the lyon sawe her / he sayd to her in this manere / For to gyue to her occacion to come doune fro the hylle / to thende that he myght ete her / My suster why comest thow not hyder on this fayre and grene medowe for to ete of these fayre herbes or grasse / And the gote ansuerd to hym / How be hit / that thow sayst trouthe / Neuertheles thow sayst it not / neyther for my wele ne for my prouffyte / but thow sayst hit / by cause that thow woldest fayne ete and deuoure me / but I truste not in thy fayre speche / For many tymes I haue herd saye of my graūt moder / he that is wel / meue not hym self / For he whiche is in a place wel sure / is wel a fole to go fro hit / and to putte hym self in grete daunger and perylle
# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Auian/Fable 14

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Numbered 340 in the Perry Index. Click here to create an annotated version of this text.
¶ The xiiij fable is of the four oxen
En oughte not to breke his feythe ageynste his good Frend / ne to leue his felauship / as hit appiereth by this fable / of four oxen whiche to gyder were in a fair medowe /  ¶ And by cause that euer they were and kepte them to gyder / none other beest durste not assaylle them / and also the lyon dradde them moche / the whiche lyon on a daye came to them / And by his deceyuable wordes thoughte for to begyle them / & to rausshe & take them the better / maade them to be separed eche one fro other /  ¶ And whanne they were sepered / the lyon wente / and toke one of them / And whan the lyon wold haue strangled hym / the oxe sayd to hym / godsep / He is a foole whiche byleueth fals and deceyuable wordes And leueth the felawship of his good frende / For yf we had ben euer to gyder / thow haddest not taken me / And therfore he whiche is / and standeth wel sure / ought to kepe hym soo that he falle not / For to whiche is wel / meue not hym self