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March.

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Over the dripping roofs and sunk snow-barrows     The bells are ringing loud and strangely near,     The shout of children dins upon mine ear     Shrilly, and like a flight of silvery arrows     Showers the sweet gossip of the British sparrows,     Gathered in noisy knots of one or two,     To joke and chatter just as mortals do     Over the days long tale of joys and sorrows;     Talk before bed-time of bold deeds together     Of thefts and fights, of hard-times and the weather,     Till sleep disarm them, to each little brain     Bringing tucked wings and many a blissful dream,     Visions of wind and sun, of field and stream,     And busy barn-yards with their scattered grain.

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