The Bird That Sung In May

A bird last spring carne to niy window ahutter, One lovely raorulug nt the break of day ; And trom lú throai did weotly rtttor . most tik tMfóua lay. Ho had no la&gtUgfl for hie joyous passion, Nosofcmn iucanure, LOMtistio rhj me; Tet iio devoted mii.euf) e.er dirf fnshia Such parfeel aud timo It Reemcd of (hoaaand joya n thousond stories, All (fimhing t'orth u ons tumitltuous tide; A Uuíloluj}h lor tlie moviiiiiK gloricS Tiint blcifmod on orery side. :"Ánd with eacïi castiole's voluptuous onding, He stpped a doff-drop t'iom the di ippiug pane ; Tluii ht'LiVviiw inj ob Int.; hiii oxtenmng, liiokü ioith his song uguui 1 thotilit to emiilnto his "wild pmotion, Anü learu th 1 1 k .- fr i in; fn n hia lunoful tonguc; Iïut huniau hosrt i. e t utteieiJ U(.h devotion HOT huiuuu lip aiioh tong. At Icngth he flew and lett in my sorrow, 1 ,1'si I elioutd lit'iir those teuder notes no moro; And tliough Í early vaked for hún vaoh mort-ow, He onioe oM aigti nsy doMf. But once anin, onc sjlent sumöior even, I mot hiin hoppiBg in the new-mown hay ; But hu iru mutu, and tooked not uji fn htavcii - Tho bird thut sung1 in B&ftf Tlii?ughnow I henr from dawD to twiüfjht hour The hoarse voodpeckei' and the oouy lay. Iu vaiu i sonk thi-ough leafleea grovo aud bower Tho birrt that sung in May. And such, mothinkg, ure childhood'd dawnin ptonThey charm t momflni uncí tben íl y ftway : Tlu'jiijrh life fto sigli undrieek those missing treaaaros, The birds thut song in May. This ïittlo losson, then, my friend, i-emeinbel1, To seiï:; eaoh bnght-wini.d Ishou in ils day ; And DVrer hop toentchin coM Dcceuilk-f, The btnl tluit Bting :n May.