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Where the chaffinch rests its wing^ 

 *Mid the budding trees so gay. 



Still, anon, it loves to sing, 

 Merrily, its roundelay. 



Lo! on yonder branchVet hoar, 

 Twin'd with honeysuckle round. 



Curiously bestudded o'er. 

 Lurks a nest by ivy crowned. 



la that little mossy nest, 



Hid from truant school-boy's eye, 

 Warm, beneath the shilfa's breast, 



Twice two speckled spheroids lie. 



See! her mate, as nigh the tree, 

 Cbaunting oft at break of day, 



Still proclaiming, merrily. 

 Merrily, his roundelay ! 



Anonymous. 



THE CHAFFINCH. 



SHILFA. TWINK. 



FRINGILLA CGELEBS; LINNiEUS. LE PINION; 



BUFFON. 



This airy and elegant little warbler is the un- 

 molested favourite of every cottage child; and, 



