Eggs

Eggs

Eggs

Herbert Asquith

Herbert Asquith

Herbert Asquith

Herbert Asquith

Bob has blown a hundred eggs,Blue and olive, white and grey;Warbler, nightingale, and thrush,Bob has blown their songs away!Low in spotless wool they rest,Purest blue and clouded white,Streaked with cinnamon and red,Flecked with purples of the night;Mute and gleaming, row on row,Lie the tombstones of the spring!What a chorus would there beIf those eggs began to sing!

Bob has blown a hundred eggs,Blue and olive, white and grey;Warbler, nightingale, and thrush,Bob has blown their songs away!Low in spotless wool they rest,Purest blue and clouded white,Streaked with cinnamon and red,Flecked with purples of the night;Mute and gleaming, row on row,Lie the tombstones of the spring!What a chorus would there beIf those eggs began to sing!

Bob has blown a hundred eggs,Blue and olive, white and grey;Warbler, nightingale, and thrush,Bob has blown their songs away!

Bob has blown a hundred eggs,

Blue and olive, white and grey;

Warbler, nightingale, and thrush,

Bob has blown their songs away!

Low in spotless wool they rest,Purest blue and clouded white,Streaked with cinnamon and red,Flecked with purples of the night;

Low in spotless wool they rest,

Purest blue and clouded white,

Streaked with cinnamon and red,

Flecked with purples of the night;

Mute and gleaming, row on row,Lie the tombstones of the spring!What a chorus would there beIf those eggs began to sing!

Mute and gleaming, row on row,

Lie the tombstones of the spring!

What a chorus would there be

If those eggs began to sing!


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