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First Line: Redbirds, redbirds
Last Line: On saxton's hill?
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Birds; Cardinals (birds)


Redbirds, redbirds,
Long and long ago,
What a honey-call you had
In hills I used to know;

Redbud, buckberry,
Wild plum-tree
And proud river sweeping
Southward to the sea,

Brown and gold in the sun
Sparkling far below,
Trailing stately round her bluffs
Where the poplars grow --

Redbirds, redbirds,
Are you singing still
As you sang one May day
On Saxton's Hill?





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