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TO SUNDRY TOO EARLY BIRDS by ARTHUR GUITERMAN

First Line: DEAR ROBIN REDBREAST, GENTLE SPRITE
Last Line: BUT NOT AT 4 A.M.!
Subject(s): BIRDS;

Dear Robin Redbreast, gentle sprite,
I love your mellow "Cheep!"
But is no Early Worm in sight?
Or don't you ever sleep?

Oh, Sparrow, Bobolink and Wren!
Though much I prize your art,
You need not chant your lays again, --
I know them now by heart.

Ye'll break my heart, ye bonny birds
That perch upon the stem;
Your songs are quite too sweet for words,
But not at 4 A.M.!



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