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TO A SWALLOW.

By THOMAS AIRD.

The swallow is a bonnie bird, comes twitt'ring o'er the sea,
And gladly is her carol heard for the sunny days to be;
She shares not with us wintry glooms, but yet, no faithless
thing,

She hunts the summer o'er the earth with little wearied wing.

The lambs like snow all nibbling go upon the ferny hills, The gladsome voice of gushing streams the leafy forest fills; Then welcome, little swallow, by our morning lattice heard, Because thou comest when nature bids bright days be thy reward.

Thine be sweet mornings with the bee that 's out for honey dew,

And glowing be the noontide for the grasshopper and you; And mellow shine, o'er day's decline, the sun to light thee

home:

What can molest thy airy nest? sleep till the day-spring

come.

The river blue that rushes through the valley hears thee sing, It murmurs much beneath the touch of thy light dipping

wing;

The thunder-cloud above us bow'd in deeper gloom is seen, When quick relieved it glances to thy bosom's silvery sheen.

The silent power that brought thee back, with leading-strings

of love,

To haunts where first the summer sun fell on thee from above, Shall bind thee more to come aye to the music of our leaves, For here thy young, where thou hast sprung, shall glad thee

in our eves.

Oh! all thy life's one pleasant hymn to God who sits on high, And gives to thee o'er land and sea the sunshine of his sky; And aye the summer shall come round because it is his word, And aye will welcome back again its little travelling bird.