<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567484" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Hearing And Seeing A Goldfinch</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The last day of October a balmy day of Spring<br>And on highest branch of a blackwood tree a sunlit goldfinch sing<br>His twittering notes unmistakeable so pleasant for to hear<br>One of the smaller songsters of the Springtime of the year.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With red around beak and of grey, brown and fawn and gold<br>A sunlit goldfinch in song is quite lovely to behold<br>You do not need to see him you know him by his song<br>One whose voice is familiar and you never can get wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a cup shaped nest of rootlets lined with down, lichen and bits of hay<br>Four to seven bluish white eggs the female bird she lay<br>Her mate he does the singing whilst she hatches her eggs to life<br>One cannot say about her that she is not a good wife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The last day of October 'tis so breezy and bright<br>And a goldfinch is singing in the warm sunlight<br>Butterflies flit around the flower beds and the dark brown honey bees<br>Are buzzing whilst gathering nectar from the blossoming bushes and trees.</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=567484" data-title="On Hearing And Seeing A Goldfinch de Francis Duggan" data-description="The last day of October a balmy day of Spring And on highest branch of a blackwood tree a sunlit goldfinch sing His twittering notes unmistakeable so pleasant for to hear One of the smaller songsters of the Springtime of the year. With red around..."></div> </div> </div>

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