22 '_ Bird Day Book 



BUD AND BLOOM 



NOW fades the last long streak of snow, 

 Now burgeons every maze of quick 

 About the flowering squares and thick 

 By ashen roots and violets blow. 



Now rings the woodland loud and long, 



The distance takes a lovelier hue, 



And drowned in yonder living blue 

 The lark becomes a sightless song. 



Now dance the lights on lawn and lea. 



The flocks are whiter down the vale, 



And milkier every milky soil, 

 On 'winding stream or distant sea. 



. ■ , . . ■ ..AVherp.now the seaman pipes, or dives 



In yonder gleaming gleam, and fly 

 . • - The happy birds, that change their sky i 



To build and breed, that live their lives 



From land to land; and in my heart [ 



Spring wakens, too; and my regret \ 



Becomes an April violet, ; 



And buds and blossoms like the rest. ; 



— Alfred Tennyson. ■ 



AAA 

 A LITTLE BIRD TOLD YOU 



I SAW a little bird today 

 Go winging through the blue, 

 And by that little bird I sent 



A kindly thought to "you. 

 So, if you feel the friendliness 

 Of an absent one enfold you, 

 Just smile and say it's sprriething that 

 A' little bird has told you. 



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