- Bolton & Co. Verse:
- 32
- Full Text
- Sweet bird thy bower is ever green
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song
Thy sky is ever clear
No winter in thy year.
- Listed on Page Number
- 259
- Sampler Worked By
- Ann Newbold
- Date of Sampler
- 1810
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 200
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Logan, John (1748-1788) OR Michael Bruce (1748-1788) “To The Cuckoo” 1st pub. 1770 in “Poems on Several Occasions” written by Michael Bruce, edited by John Logan. The authorship of the poem is contested. Some say it was written by Michael Bruce. John Logan, who was the editor of Bruce’s 1770 book, later published ‘Poems’ in 1781 and claimed authorship.
- Notes
- HAIL, beauteous stranger of the grove!
Thou messenger of spring!
Now Heaven repairs thy rural seat,
And woods thy welcome sing.
What time the daisy decks the green,
Thy certain voice we hear.
Hast thou a star to guide thy path,
Or mark the rolling year?
Delightful visitant! with thee
I hail the time of flowers,
And hear the sound of music sweet
From birds among the bowers.
The school-boy, wandering through the wood
To pull the primrose gay,
Starts, the new voice of Spring to hear,
And imitates thy lay.
What time the pea puts on the bloom,
Thou fliest thy vocal vale,
An annual guest in other lands,
Another spring to hail.
Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green,
Thy sky is ever clear;
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year!
O, could I fly, I ’d fly with thee!
We’d make, with joyful wing,
Our annual visit o’er the globe,
Companions of the Spring.