The blackbird startles from the homestead hedge,
Raindrops and leaves fall yellow as he springs;
Such images are nature's sweetest pledge,
To me there's music in his rustling wings.
‘Prink, prink,’ he cries, and loud the robin sings;
The small hawk like a shot drops from the sky
Close to my feet for mice and creeping things.

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