SNOW-BIRDS

Birdies dancing on the snow,Merry as if this were June;And the little wiry feetSkipping to the gayest tune;With no stockings and no shoes,Chirping forth the morning news.O, you’ll freeze your tiny feetWhile you chipper glad and sweet!“Freeze?” they chipper, “no, for weAre the snow-birds, don’t you see?This is telling our delightFor the morning golden-bright,As we breakfast on the seedsGathered from the old dry weeds.Does your song of praises flowGlad, as we chirp on the snow?”

Birdies dancing on the snow,Merry as if this were June;And the little wiry feetSkipping to the gayest tune;With no stockings and no shoes,Chirping forth the morning news.O, you’ll freeze your tiny feetWhile you chipper glad and sweet!“Freeze?” they chipper, “no, for weAre the snow-birds, don’t you see?This is telling our delightFor the morning golden-bright,As we breakfast on the seedsGathered from the old dry weeds.Does your song of praises flowGlad, as we chirp on the snow?”

Birdies dancing on the snow,Merry as if this were June;And the little wiry feetSkipping to the gayest tune;With no stockings and no shoes,Chirping forth the morning news.O, you’ll freeze your tiny feetWhile you chipper glad and sweet!

Birdies dancing on the snow,

Merry as if this were June;

And the little wiry feet

Skipping to the gayest tune;

With no stockings and no shoes,

Chirping forth the morning news.

O, you’ll freeze your tiny feet

While you chipper glad and sweet!

“Freeze?” they chipper, “no, for weAre the snow-birds, don’t you see?This is telling our delightFor the morning golden-bright,As we breakfast on the seedsGathered from the old dry weeds.Does your song of praises flowGlad, as we chirp on the snow?”

“Freeze?” they chipper, “no, for we

Are the snow-birds, don’t you see?

This is telling our delight

For the morning golden-bright,

As we breakfast on the seeds

Gathered from the old dry weeds.

Does your song of praises flow

Glad, as we chirp on the snow?”

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