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Title: Birds and flowers, or, Lays and lyrics of rural life
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888 Giacomelli, Hector, 1822-1904
Subjects: Birds -- Juvenile poetry Flowers -- Juvenile poetry
Publisher: London New York : T. Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Do ye know the little Wood-mouse, That pretty little thing,That sits amongst the forest leaves, Beside the forest spring ? Its fur is red as the cl^estnut, And it is small and slim, It leads a life most innocent Within the forest dim.3 34 THE WOOD-MOUSE. Tis a timid, gentle creature,Aiid seldom comes in sight; It Las a long and wiry tail, And eyes both black and bright. It makes its nest of soft, dry moss,In a hole so deep and strong; And there it sleeps secure and warm.The dreary winter long. And though it keeps no calendar, It knows when flowers are springing; And waketh to its summer lifeWhen nightingales are singing. Upon the boughs the squirrel sits,Tlie Wood-mouse plays below ; And plenty of food it finds itselfWhere the beech and chestnut grow. &* In the hedge-sparrows nest it sits,When the summer brood is fled, And picks the berries from the boughOf the hawthorn overhead. THE WOOD-MOUSE. 35 I saw a little Wood-mouse once, Like Oberon in his hall,With the green, green moss

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