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A burst of song from the lilac bush under the parlor window drew her eyes thither, and there was the paternal redbreast pouring out the very soul of ecstasy. From the nest beneath him rose the black head and yellow beak of his brooding mate. "How contented and happy she looks!" Alida murmured, "how happy they both are!
And then she quoted in the deep throaty voice which was one of her greatest charms: "A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage." "The one I should like to see put over every manger is: "A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to Heaven for human blood," said Donnington. "Oh!" she cried, "and Bill, surely the best of all is: "A skylark wounded on the wing, A cherubim doth cease to sing."
In the ivy round the oak by the margin, the owl hungers for the night, which shall give its beak and its talons living food for its young; and the spray of the willow trembles with the wing of the redbreast, whose bright eye sees the worm on the sod. Canst thou count too, O Man! all the cares, all the sins, that those noiseless rooftops conceal?
The conservatory, dining-room, and drawing-rooms have each their little redbreast visitor; the latter is so tame he will take meal-worms from my hand, and sits on my inkstand singing a sweet, low song whilst I write. As long as each bird keeps to his domain there is peace, but woe to any intruder!
"What nice men we have in America over the poorhouse," said he; "they are very kind to us." "Yes; but I don't like that man with the great beard," said Bridget; "he frightens me when I meet him. O, such a feesage; a robin redbreast could make her nest in it," said she, smiling. "He might be a nice man for all that, Bid. Most people here don't shave at all, you know, as we saw in New York.
She told the whole even how the old Christmas card in her pocket had brought up the subject of Robin Redbreast, and how Bessie had asked her to tell no one but her mother, if she could help it; then how Camilla's letter had repeated this, ending up by what had recently come to her knowledge of the increased troubles of the Harper family. 'Oh Jass, she concluded, 'if we could help them somehow.
Fridolin said good-by and left. Maya stayed; she was eager to get at Hannibal's personality. "The many, many different kinds of animals there are in the world," she thought. "Every day a fresh discovery." The wind had subsided some, and the sun shone through the branches. From below rose the song of a robin redbreast, filling the woods with joy.
Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow. The skylark never approaches human habitations in this way, as the redbreast does, Mr. Masson replies that the subject of the verb "to come" is, not the skylark, but L'Allegro, the joyous student. I cannot construe the lines as Mr.
No one was about, so she ventured to peep in, and her surprise was increased at seeing, heaped up in one corner, a quantity of food of all sorts, while a little robin redbreast stood perched on a beam looking down upon her. 'It is my father, I am sure, she cried; and the bird piped in answer.
So Patty went to live with the doctor, and she had lovely dresses of porcelain to wear, and a servant to stand in statu quo behind her chair at dinner. Hopvine Woodbine. On the 21st, Mr. Hopvine, to Miss Woodbine, both of Marbury. No cards. On the first of June, little Robin, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Redbreast, aged two months, four days, and three hours.
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