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The Song Sparrow
He does not wear a Joseph's coat of many colors, smart and gay
His suit is Quaker brown and gray, with darker patches at his throat.
And yet of all the well-dressed throng, not one can sing so brave a song.
It makes the pride of looks appear a vain and foolish thing to hear
In "Sweet, sweet, sweet, very merry cheer."
A lofty place he does not love, he sits by choice and well at ease
In hedges and in little trees, that stretch their slender arms above
The meadow brook; and then he sings till all the field with pleasure rings;
And so he tells in every ear, that lowly homes to heaven are near
In "Sweet, sweet, sweet, very merry cheer."
~ Henry Van Dyke
Neat Note: "that lowly homes to heaven are near" ~ Song Sparrow's prefer to build their nests on the ground, and do not generally sit on feeders, they prefer to stay close to the ground.
- Anna Botsford Comstock in the Handbook of Nature Study has to say about the above poem:
"Seldom in literature have detailed accurate observation and poetry been so happily combined as in these verses."
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