<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357587" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Grey Thrush at the Door</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Swe-e-et! Swe-e-et!' Low at first and flattering,<br>Full of soft seductiveness on a wheedling note.<br>Who comes in mercy now, crumbs of comfort scattering<br>For a grey bird pleading from a cold, cold throat?<br>Just a thread of tallow-fat, just a scrap of meat!<br>Grey thrush is at the door. 'Swe-e-et! Swe-e-et!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grey bird, friendly bird, merry bird in summer time,<br>For summer is a merry time, full of tuneful mirth.<br>Sunny days are singing days. But winter is a glummer time<br> With lean days of scant fare; frost has locked the earth.<br>Song goes as sun goes, and harshly drives the sleet.<br>Where comes the almoner? 'Swe-e-et! Swe-e-et!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Sweet! Sweet!' Now it grows imperious:<br>A short call, a loud call, impatience in its tone.<br>Why am I left lingering? See, my plight is serious.<br>A poor bird all forlorn, starving and alone.<br>Grey Thrush is a-hungering, begging scraps to eat.<br>It's far beyond my breakfast time! 'Sweet! Sweet!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now a footstep on the floor. Now a sudden fluttering,<br>And Grey Thrush is waiting there beside the open door.<br>Kookaburra cocks an eye; greedily he's muttering;<br>But grey bird is first to swoop upon the proffered store,<br>A scrap of song in gratitude, then up, and off, away.<br>And the mendicant has vanished till another frosty day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=357587" data-title="Grey Thrush at the Door de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="'Swe-e-et! Swe-e-et!' Low at first and flattering, Full of soft seductiveness on a wheedling note. Who comes in mercy now, crumbs of comfort scattering For a grey bird pleading from a cold, cold throat? Just a thread of tallow-fat, just a scrap of..."></div> </div> </div>

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