Spring.

""Who's afraid of a cat?" said he;         "I'm not afraid of a cat."             He was a bird who sat on a rail,         With five other birds"

"Shall I sing you a song, not short and not long,         Of a story-book fairy who hides all among         The covers and leaves of your pic"

"I hear a Song         I think 'tis a thrush's.     He sings to the Wild Rose         See how she blushes!"

"Bring Frost, bring Snow,                 Come winter,                 Bring us holly,     Bring joy at Christmas,                 Off with Mel"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"