A First Series of Hymns and Songs/Descriptive Songs/The Cuckoo (I.)
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23. The Cuckoo.
The bee is humming in the sun,
The yellow cowslip springs;
And, hark! from yonder woodland's side
Again the Cuckoo sings;
No other note but Cuckoo still
She sings from day to day;
Yet I, though but a little child,
Can read, and sing, and pray.