Dear Mary, if thy little bird
Should, all the winter long,
Pleased from the window to be heard,
Repay thee with a song;
A lesson let it still convey
To all with sense endued;
And such the voice, oh! let it say,
The still small voice of love.
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LITTLE MARY'S LINNET. · William Lisle Bowles · Poetry Cove