SWAYING TREE TOPS 



The robin looks in on us for the 

 first time in the morning. That is 

 when I best like to have him come. 

 He turns up all at once. I am not 

 thinking of him at all, when suddenly 

 I hear him call. If anyone may 

 be pardoned for interrupting him- 

 self at his prayers, I think it is 

 when robin calls. I like to think that 

 he has been traveling all night, and 

 early in the morning drops his grip 

 on my doorstep, and calls out, 

 "Here!" "Here!" "Spring!" 

 " Spring! " He who made the birds 

 did put such meaning into one note. 

 I understand how the "come forth " 

 at the tomb of Lazarus awakened 

 the sleeper. He who made the robin's 

 call could easily charge his own voice 

 with persuasive power. The first 



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