Birds’ Nests
George Walter
Thornbury
Thornbury, George Walter
W. T.
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
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In the public domain
Poet attribution: the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the author as Walter Thornbury, with the payment given as 10s 6d (NLS 341/310). (AC)
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
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The lark it loves the yellow corn ;
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Bird
s’ Nest
s.
The lark it loves the yellow corn ;
The jay, the beech’s top ;
The rooks, the elms, whose leafy crowns
Unceasing sway and lop.
The robin in the nettle builds,
And the sparrow in the hedge ;
The eagle loves the sloping rock,
And the granite slab and ledge.
All other birds have chosen earth
For home, both morn and even ;
But the lark he chose the better part,
And claimed his share of heaven.
This bird who sings at the angels’ gate,
Is yet not vain nor proud—
All night upon the lowly earth,
All day up in the cloud !
W. T.