ON THE THRESHOLD.
While I was singing yesterday, Beneath the lilacs, dear, A little bird perched overhead As if it longed to hear. I cried, " Oh, bird, sing— sing to me ! No song of mine can ever be So sweejfc as your wild minstrelsy." The little bird began to sing : At every note and sound It see"mcd as if strange listeners came, And softly gathered round. And still the bird sang loud and clear, I shut my eyes that I might hear The voices in the strange world near. And when at last the bird was still I opened wide my eyes, But all around were but the trees Uplifting to the skies— The'ttttle bird i-. far away, But I beneath the lilacs btray To that sweet world of yesterday. Cav^ell'- Magazine.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2110, 16 January 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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152ON THE THRESHOLD. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2110, 16 January 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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