If I Might be a Bird

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Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 3 11:282, 352, 28 May 1859.

First line

If I might be a bird, I’d be a lark

Authorship

Notes and attribution research

Poet attribution: the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the poet as J. Ellis, Borough, with the payment given as 10s 6d (NLS 341/310). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 6497

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