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jj. ploiigliman is pleased when he gleans in his train, 
O'v searching the furrows— now mounting to cheer him j 
. -The gard’iier delights in his sweet, simple strain, 
^ leans on his spade to survey and to hear him ; 
slow liug’ring schoollioys forget they’ll be chid, 
‘die gazing intent as he warbles before them 
ft, In mantle of sky-blue, and bosom so red, 
liat each little loiterer seems to adore him, 
^Vlien all the gny scenes of the summer are o'er, 
'"nd auttmin slow enters so silent and sallow, 
p'And millions of warblers, that charm’d us before, 
^ave fled in the train of the sun-seeking swallow j 
^ I'lie bluebird, forsaken, yet true to his home, 
‘^d)l lingers, and looks for a mil<ier to-morrow, 
I'ill forced by the horrors ot winter to roam, 
sings his adieu in a lone note of sorrow. 
.j-^^liile spring’s lovely season, serene, dewy, warm, 
Ihe green face of earth, ajul tlie pure blue of heaven, 
love’s native music hav(' inlluence to charm^ 
sympathy’s glow to our feelings are given, 
Still dear to each bosom the bluebird shall be ; 
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Voice, like the thrillings of hope, is a treasure; 
rj^^r, through bleakest storms, if a calm he but see? 
Comes to remind us of sunshine and pleasure ! 
’j'l 
bluebird, iu summer and fall, is fond of fre- 
«io ^'•'8' open pasture iields ; and there perching on 
of the great mullein, to look out for passing 
whole family of them are often seen, thus 
’■*'!> as if receiving lessons of dexterity i'rom their 
it(i) expert parents, who can espy a beetle crawling 
ffejjji'S' Ihe grass, at a considerable distance ; and, after 
'"stautly resume their former ])osition. 
is u "'i'oever informed Dr Latham, that “ this bird 
lioh*^®’’, ®eeii on trees, tliough it makes its nes't in the 
them!”* might as welt have said, that the 
liHilf'^us are never seen in the streets, though they 
^.0 t«eir houses by the sides of them. For wJiat is 
Mr([ a file construction <►£ the feet and cliiws of this 
^ Pi'event it from perchiijir? Or what sight more 
to au inhabitaut of this country than the blue- 
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