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Last Line: Would have it so
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Birds; Mortality; Death – Animals


Gone to his rest
Bright little Bouby!
Build green his nest
Where sun and dew be.
Nor snails molest

A cheerful sage,
Simple, light-hearted:
In ripe old age
He had departed
Andf tak'n his wage.

Dear for himself;
Dear for another
Past price of pelf
- (Ah, Dearest Mother!) -
Song-singing elf.

O daisies, grow
Lightly above him,
Strike root, aand below:
For some who love him
Would have it so.





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