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PRECURSORS by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: THE LITTLE BIRDS THAT HITHER BRING
Last Line: THE LEAFY MULTITUDE APPEARS.
Subject(s): BIRDS;

The little birds that hither bring
The earliest messages of spring
Seem, fountain-like, to everflow
With music melted from the snow.

So sweet the tidings that they tell
The hidden buds begin to swell,
Till suddenly, with lifted ears,
The leafy multitude appears.



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