Close by the busy haunts of man, 



Within the shelf ring leave.-. 



( )f some tall pear-tree, low down 



AVhere thorny branchlets meet, 



The King-bird builds her cosy nest : 



Without, of slicks and grasses coarse 



And blossomed weeds of divers kinds 



Variously intermingled, 



And in the neatest style arranged; 



\Yithin, oi' IV;il!:ets soft, and do\vn, 



The cast-oil' plumes of distant kin. 



I 1 en- she ivars her tender oll'spring 

 And t. aches -hfiii the roystt-ri 



<>f bird-life. Wor to thr \\ivtrh 



III !V;illi.'iVi! ill. : 3 \\!l.. .i.ll'i-S i 1 ..', :idf 



Tin- ii-alm \> Ill-rein shr : u ;i\ - i In- rod 

 And ivptre! 



GENTRY. 



