<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=542543" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Good Friend To Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gold billed blackbird whistling upon the the garden tree<br>For the past few years a good neighbour to me<br>He whistles every day all through the Spring<br>And his song to it has a distinctive ring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the other all dark males of his race him I know<br>Since on his left wing a few flight feathers white as snow<br>He tells other males of his kind in his song<br>This patch of ground to me and mine belong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each time I hear the blackbird pipe and sing<br>My thoughts return to the far northern Spring<br>On Spring evenings in groves by Millstreet Town<br>The blackbirds pipe before the sun goes down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The blackbird whistling on the wattle tree<br>He only sings to proclaim territory<br>His neighbour males the warning in his song hear<br>And his border they dare not venture near.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The blackbird in the garden a good friend to me<br>I know him by sight each time him I see<br>By the few white feathers on his left side wing<br>And his song it takes me to the Northern Spring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=542543" data-title="A Good Friend To Me de Francis Duggan" data-description="The gold billed blackbird whistling upon the the garden tree For the past few years a good neighbour to me He whistles every day all through the Spring And his song to it has a distinctive ring. From the other all dark males of his race him I kno..."></div> </div> </div>

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