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 THE • YEAR'S • AT • THE • SPRING

We would not hurt them, he knows; not we!

So "Come and see!" he says:

"Come and see! Come and see!"

No thrush was ever so proud as he!

His bright-eyed lady has left those eggs

For just five minutes to stretch her legs.

He's keeping guard in the hawthorn-tree,

And "Come and see!" he says:

"Come and see! Come and see!"

He has no fear of the boys and me.

He came and shared in our meals, you know,

In hungry times of the frost and snow.

So now we share in his Secret Tree

Where "Come and see!" he says:

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