Linenotes

Title] The Language of Birds: Lines spoken extempore, to a little child, in early spring M. P.

Between 6-7

'I love, and I love,' almost all the birds say
From sunrise to star-rise, so gladsome are they.

M. P.

After

'Tis no wonder that he's full of joy to the brim,
When He loves his Love, and his Love loves him.

M. P.

Line 10 is adapted from the refrain of Prior's Song ('One morning very early, one morning in the spring'):—'I love my love, because I know my love loves me.'