The Caged Bird. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.)
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Oh, who would keep a little bird confined, When cowslip bells are nodding in the wind; When every hedge as with "good morrow" rings, And, heard from wood to coombe, the blackbird sings! Oh! who would keep a little bird confined In his cold wiry prison? Let him fly, And hear him sing: How sweet is liberty!
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