 Of many colors, smart and gay; His suit is Quaker brown and gray, With darker patches at his throat. And yet of all the well-dressed throng Not one can sing so brave a song. It makes the pride of looks appear A vain and foolish thing, to hear His " Sweet—sweet—sw...  The Kindergarten-primary Magazine - Page 32edited by - 1925Full view - About this book
 | Henry Van Dyke - Bookbinding - 1897 - 112 pages
...Quaker brown and gray, With darker patches at his throat. And yet of all the well-dressed throng Not one can sing so brave a song. It makes the pride of...hear His "Sweet—sweet—sweet—very merry cheer." But sits by choice, and well at ease, In hedges, and in little trees That stretch their slender arms... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1897 - 112 pages
...Quaker brown and gray, With darker patches at his throat. And yet of all the well-dressed throng Not one can sing so brave a song. It makes the pride of...looks appear A vain and foolish thing, to hear His "Sweet— siveet— sweet— <very merry cheer." But sits by choice, and well at ease, In hedges, and... | |
 | John Burroughs - American poetry - 1901 - 388 pages
...Quaker brown and gray, With darker patches at his throat. And yet of all the well-dressed throng Not one can sing so brave a song. It makes the pride of...looks appear A vain and foolish thing, to hear His " Sweet — sweet — sweet — very merry cheer." A lofty place he does not love, But sits by choice,... | |
 | Elizabeth V. Brown - Readers - 1902 - 200 pages
...Quaker brown and gray, With darker patches at his throat ; And yet of all the well-dressed throng Not one can sing so brave a song. It makes the pride of...looks appear A vain and foolish thing, to hear His " Sweet — sweet — sweet — very merry cheer." A lofty place he does not love, But sits by choice,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1905 - 104 pages
...makes the pride of looks appear A vain and foolish thing, to hear His "Sweet— sweet— saved— very merry cheer." A lofty place he does not love, But...little trees That stretch their slender arms above The meadow-brook ; and there he sings Till all the field with pleasure rings; And so he tells in every... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1905 - 212 pages
...the pride of looks appear A vain and foolish thing, to hear His "Sweet — sweet — sweet — very merry cheer" A lofty place he does not love, But sits...little trees That stretch their slender arms above The meadow-brook; and there he sings Till all the field with pleasure rings; And so he tells in every ear,... | |
 | Augustus White Long - American Poetry (Collections) - 1905 - 380 pages
...Quaker brown and gray, v> With darker patches at his throat. And yet of all the well-dressed throng Not one can sing so brave a song. It makes the pride of...looks appear A vain and foolish thing, to hear His " Sweet — sweet — sweet — very merry cheer." EUGENE FIELD 1850-1895 AMERICA has produced no more... | |
 | Natural history - 1913 - 332 pages
...Rurrotigh's Songs of Nature, McClurc, Phillips & Co. r,r, And yet of all the well dressed throng Not one can sing so brave a song. It makes the pride of...looks appear A vain and foolish thing, to hear His "Sweet — sweet — sweet — very merry cheer." A lofty place he does not love, But sits by choice,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Edwin Mims - Bookbinding - 1905 - 230 pages
...Quaker brown and gray, With darker patches at his throat. And yet of all the well-dressed throng Not one can sing so brave a song. It makes the pride of...looks appear A vain and foolish thing, to hear His "Sweet — sweet — sweet — very merry cheer." A lofty place he does not love, But sits by choice,... | |
 | Augustus White Long - American Poetry (Collections) - 1905 - 382 pages
...so brave a song. 1 From The Builders and Other Poems. Copyright, 1897, by Charles Scribner's Sons. It makes the pride of looks appear A vain and foolish thing, to hear His " Sweet — sweet — sweet — very merry cheer." EUGENE FIELD 1850-1895 AMERICA has produced no more... | |
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