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...dreary season, the red-breast " pays to trusted man his annual visit : " • • • • "Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk alights...wonders where he is ; Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Attract his slender feet." A naturalist* mentions a singular proof of the robin's love...

...red-breast, sacred to the household Gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and...wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various forms, dark snares and dogs, And more...