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The Spring Call

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Down Wessex way, when spring's a-shine,      The blackbird's "pret-ty de-urr!"     In Wessex accents marked as mine      Is heard afar and near.     He flutes it strong, as if in song      No R's of feebler tone     Than his appear in "pretty dear,"      Have blackbirds ever known.     Yet they pipe "prattie deerh!" I glean,      Beneath a Scottish sky,     And "pehty de-aw!" amid the treen      Of Middlesex or nigh.     While some folk say - perhaps in play -      Who know the Irish isle,     'Tis "purrity dare!" in treeland there      When songsters would beguile.     Well: I'll say what the listening birds      Say, hearing "pret-ty de-urr!" -     However strangers sound such words,      That's how we sound them here.     Yes, in this clime at pairing time,      As soon as eyes can see her     At dawn of day, the proper way      To call is "pret-ty de-urr!"

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