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Snowdrops and bluebells Primroses and daffodils Will ring out loud bells To welcome in the spring Birth is here, it's breaking out of death's hour In fertile bulb and bud we see the promised flower...

You walk with an intelligence That informs a clear bright eye There are unexpected revelations In the company of Ravens. You walk with dire drear death Breath rancid and heavy Through the bleakest...

An earthly nourris sits and sings And aye she sings 'Ba lily wain And little ken I my bairn's father Far less the land that he dwells in'. Then one arose at her bedfoot And a grumbly guest I'm sure...

What is this brilliant company Dressed in silks and satins gay They are draped in bales of linen That they found along the way. They ride in gilded carriages And they eat off china plates Finest...

He's my baby and I prize him I've kept him in his bed Till he was two years grown I've fed him on ox blood An dry bone-meal And now he is ready to be shown Who am I? From his plate up to his button...

Rich pickings from the wastrels Rich pickings from the hand of man These fine beaks can find What you leave behind Because we're not fussy We don't care We're not proud We're loud. We'll scrabble in...

He took four hundred thousand men, likewise some kings to swell his throng. He was so well provided, enough to sweep the world along, Through the villages of Prussia, where food was plentyful, and...

I soar with the draughts and balance on the wind Coal black and at ease I drop, I swoop, I loop the loop Tumbling above the trees. My partner for life well matches my flight Through weather sharp or...