136 THE SWALLOW 



One child asks her to find and salute her 

 pretty godmother over the sea : : — 



Thou who art setting out o'er sea, 

 Salute my godmother there for me ; 

 Take hef my love, I fondly pray. 

 Her with the wig and the ribbons gay. 



Another mourns because the bird will find a 

 new nest over the seas^ but where will his 

 own home be? 



The swallows have all flown away, — 

 To a land that is warmer, more gay ; 

 New nests they will makfi o'er the sea. 

 But my nest ^- Ah ! where shall it be ? 



I would build it, my love, in your heart, 

 I would bide with you never to part. 

 There let me rest, let me stay, 

 Till life and the world pass away. 



After listening to all these sentimental 

 songs, a practical litfle swallow from the 

 shores of Greece tells the children that the 

 harvest remains for them to gather, and that 

 she will return after it is all stored away : — 



I am going aWay > — and with you I leave 

 The figs and the nuts, the grapes and the grain, 

 Which stored away in the bins will be, 

 When I come back to this land again. 



