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Songs interwoven of lights and of laughters
Borrowed from bell-birds in far forest rafters.

— Henry Kendall

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Don’t you hear the yapping of the dogs—
The yapping and the yelping of the dogs?

He never lost his appetite —
He bigger grew and bigger;
And proved, with every inch of height,
A nigger is a nigger.

The silver-voiced bell-birds, the darlings of day-time,
They sing in September their songs of the May-time.

Welcome as waters unkissed by the summers
Are the voices of bell-birds to thirsty far-comers.

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