Excerpt from Woodland and Wild: A Selection of Descriptive PoetryThe sun peeps through the window-pane, Which children mark with laughing eye, And in the wet street steal again, To tell each other Spring is nigh Then, as young hope the past recalls, In playing groups they often draw, To build beside the sunny walls Their spring-time huts of sticks or straw.And oft in pleasure's dreams they hie Round homesteads by the village side, Scratching the hedgerow mosses by, Where painted pooty shells abide, Mistaking oft the ivy spray For leaves that come with budding Spring, And wondering, in their search for play, Why birds delay to build and sing.The milkmaid singing leaves her bed, As happy as happy thoughts can be, While magpies chatter o'er her head As jocund in the change as she Her cows around the closes stray, Nor lingering wait the foddering-boy, Tossing the mole-hills in their play, And staring round with frolic joy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.