<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116033" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Concert of Birds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mounting lark (day's herald) got on wing,<br>Bidding each bird choose out his bough and sing.<br>The lofty treble sung the little wren;<br>Robin the mean, that best of all loves men;<br>The nightingale the tenor, and the thrush<br>The counter-tenor sweetly in a bush.<br>And that the music might be full in parts,<br>Birds from the groves flew with right willing hearts;<br>But (as it seem'd) they thought (as do the swains,<br>Which tune their pipes on sack'd Hibernia's plains)<br>There should some droning part be, therefore will'd<br>Some bird to fly into a neighb'ring field,<br>In embassy unto the King of Bees,<br>To aid his partners on the flowers and trees<br>Who, condescending, gladly flew along<br>To bear the bass to his well-tuned song.<br>The crow was willing they should be beholding<br>For his deep voice, but being hoarse with scolding,<br>He thus lends aid; upon an oak doth climb,<br>And nodding with his head, so keepeth time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Browne">William Browne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116033" data-title="A Concert of Birds de William Browne" data-description="The mounting lark (day's herald) got on wing,/Bidding each bird choose out his bough and sing./The lofty treble sung the little wren;/Robin the mean, that best of all loves men;/The nightingale the tenor, and the thrush/The counter-tenor sweetly i..."></div> </div> </div>

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