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The Expert
| Talk on the Farm | The Expert written by James Edward Hervey MacDonald |
Spring in the Valley |
| In The Canadian Forum, January 1921, p. 118 |
New come again to Lilactown,
I waited each arriving bird;
And from my books and memories,
I named them as I saw or heard.
The robin and the song-sparrow,
The blue-bird and kildeer I told;
But one sweet singer puzzled me,
Piping unseen a flute of gold.
I asked my neighbour if he knew
This bird that seemed my lore to stump;
"Taint one o' them book-birds", he said,
"It's Cy Low's darned old rusty pump".