Show I IA b A Longing By Carolyn Wells Mines Mine's a musi music loving nature and my very heartstrings thrill To 10 the song of thrush or mavis nightingale mavis-nightingale nightingale or whippoorwill whip whip- But Bat my unfulfilled a ambition iton is to hear the ha haunting ting croon OC ot t the e apteryx singing a-singing a in in the ilex Hex on the dt dune c I T have wandered in the tropics I have ho e rambled in the glades glade i I have baTe pice he heard shades the scarlet tangerine trill trl forth from coppice coppice cop cop- cp- cp But Hut its is song is unimportant colorless its is rh rhythmic rune re To fro the thc apteryx singing a a il inthe the ile ilex on the the dune dunc I have IJ e heard herd the leekie leekie cocke-leekie on the he lonely Scottish moor I have and heard dour the raucous with ih its is pip piping ng dank dalf i I have heard the trocadero but I still sti beg Fortunes Fortune's boon bon Of the tho apteryx singing a-singing in the ilex lex on 01 the dune So I in simple silence I possess my soul and ana mind mindI mindIn mindin In I what patience I can enn muster and what courage I can cn find fid And Ad I trust I yet et shall listen in October say or June June June- To 0 an a apteryx apter singing a-singing a in the thc ilex Hex on the dune dime In In Life |