ON THE ST BERNARD'S CANARY BIRDS Rebekah Carmichael (later Hay) Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T104666 Carmichael, Miss (Rebekah) (fl. 1790-1806). Poems. Edinburgh Peter Hill 1790 pp. 29-30. 92p.

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ON THE ST BERNARD'S CANARY BIRDS Sweet is the subject of my verse , Then let the softest notes rehearse The simple tale of woe ; Two pretty birds , by love endear'd , Elate on airy pinions rear'd , In mutual flight did go To yonder grove , where neither strife , Nor jarring scenes of busy life , Could hurt the little pair ; They knew the master good and kind , Of tender heart , and equal mind , And thought to settle there . In sweetest notes his praise they sung , In yonder yew bush hatch'd their young , Yet shyly shun'd his care ; Around the season seem'd to smile , They knew not nature could beguile , So flew in open air . Their infant brood had caught the wing , Their little throats were tun'd to sing , When lo ! the killing frost Did on each tender blossom seize ; Chill , helpless 'mong the hoary trees , They fell , for ever lost . Yet shall some pretty babe relate Their timeless end , but happy fate , Too apt to find an urn ; And other songsters , as they fly , Shall view them with a plaintive eye , But envy while they mourn .