Little Mary's Linnet. (From The Villager's Verse-Book.)
By William Lisle Bowles
Dear Mary, if thy little bird
Should, all the winter long,
Pleased from the window to be heard,
Repay thee with a song;
A lesson let it still convey
To all with sense endued;
And such the voice, oh! let it say,
The still small voice of love.