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Glimmers gray the leafless thicket	A
Close beside my garden gate	B
Where so light from post to picket	A
Hops the sparrow blithe sedate	B
Who with meekly folded wing	C
Comes to sun himself and sing	C
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It was there perhaps last year	D
That his little house he built	E
For he seems to perk and peer	D
And to twitter too and tilt	E
The bare branches in between	F
With a fond familiar mien	F
	-
Once I know there was a nest	G
Held there by the sideward thrust	H
Of those twigs that touch his breast	G
Though 'tis gone now Some rude gust	H
Caught it over full of snow	I
Bent the bush and robbed it so	I
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Thus our highest holds are lost	J
By the ruthless winter's wind	K
When with swift dismantling frost	J
The green woods we dwelt in thinn'd	L
Of their leafage grow too cold	M
For frail hopes of summer's mold	M
	-
But if we with spring days mellow	I
Wake to woeful wrecks of change	N
And the sparrow's ritornello	I
Scaling still its old sweet range	N
Can we do a better thing	C
Than with him still build and sing	C
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Oh my sparrow thou dost breed	O
Thought in me beyond all telling	C
Shootest through me sunlight seed	O
And fruitful blessing with that welling	C
Ripple of ecstatic rest	G
Gurgling ever from thy breast	G
	-
And thy breezy carol spurs	P
Vital motion in my blood	Q
Such as in the sapwood stirs	P
Swells and shapes the pointed bud	Q
Of the lilac and besets	P
The hollows thick with violets	P
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Yet I know not any charm	R
That can make the fleeting time	S
Of thy sylvan faint alarm	R
Suit itself to human rhyme	S
And my yearning rhythmic word	T
Does thee grievous wrong dear bird	T
	-
So however thou hast wrought	U
This wild joy on heart and brain	V
It is better left untaught	U
Take thou up the song again	W
There is nothing sad afloat	U
On the tide that swells thy throat	U

George Parsons Lathrop

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