Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE THRUSH'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE


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First Line: Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush
Last Line: Glad as that sunshine and the laughing sky.
Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Thrushes


WITHIN a thick and spreading hawthorn bush,
That overhung a molehill large and round,
I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush
Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the sound
With joy, and, often an intruding guest,
I watched her secret toils from day to day --
How true she warped the moss, to form a nest,
And modelled it within with wood and clay;
And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew,
There lay her shining eggs, as bright as flowers,
Ink-spotted-over shells of greeny blue:
And there I witnessed in the sunny hours
A brood of nature's minstrels chirp and fly,
Glad as that sunshine and the laughing sky.





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