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pointed them out to me The 

 trees where the birds nest and 

 the birds that nest there, the 

 shadows where the herds lie 

 and the herds panting in the 

 shadows with luminant eyes, 

 buds that swell toward blossom- 

 ing and blossoms in haste 

 toward fruitage, white sea gull 

 and robin redbreast with his 

 song like the gurgle of laughter 

 in a baby's throat, high sea 

 clifts leaning seaward and sea 

 marshes through which the salt 

 tides flood their crystal rivers, 

 fern and oak and sweet sur- 

 prise of mosses, rivulet and 

 broad river, plunge of waterfall 

 and placid stream where the 



A ROBIN REDBREAST IN HIS FAVORITE HAUNT-AN APPLE-TREE 



