Beloved of children, bards and spring, 



O birds, your perfect virtues bring, — 



Your song, your forms, your rhytlimic flight, 



Your manners for the heart's delight ; 



Nestle in hedge, or barn, or roof. 



Here weave your chamber weather-proof. 



Forgive our harms, and condescend 



To man, as to a lubber friend. 



And, generous, teach his awkward race 



Courage and probity and grace ! " 



Emerson. 



