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THE BIRDS COME BACK by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON

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First Line: THE BIRDS COME BACK TO THEIR LAST YEAR'S NEST
Last Line: "SHE NEVER WILL COME AGAIN."
Subject(s): BIRDS;
THE birds come back to their last year's nest,
And the wild-rose nods in the lane;
And gold in the east, and red in the west,
The sun bestirs him again.

The thief-bee rifles the hawthorn flower;
And the breezes softly sigh
For the columbine in my lady's bower,
And then at her feet they die.

And all the pomp of the June is here --
The mirth and passion and song;
And young is the summer, and life is dear,
And the day is never too long.

Ah! birds come back to their last year's nest,
And the wild-rose laughs in the lane;
But I turn to the east and I turn to the west --
"She never will come again."



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