Show from the oatsville Cais Cats ville standard robin tobin red breast isy BY BISHOP DOANE 91 have some gome where met an old legend that a robin hovering around the cross bore offa off a thorn from our dear saviors crown and dy dyed his bosom with blood and chaty that from that time robins are the friend of man sweet robin I 1 have heard beard them say that thou wert there upon the day that th t christ was crowned in cruel scorn and and bore away one bleeding thorn that so the blush upon thy breast in shameful sorrow was impressed and thence thy genial genal sympathy 7 with our redeemed humanity sweet robin would that I 1 might be bathed in my saviors blood like thee bear in my breast what wh alere elre the loss the bleeding blazon of the cross like ever with thy loving mind in fellowship with human kind and take my pattern still from thee in gentleness and constancy secured |