"Beloved of children, bards and spring, 

 O birds, your perfect virtues bring, 

 Your song, your forms, your rhythmic 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. 



