Mythology & Folklore
Awa' birds, away!
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
Mythology & Folklore
Awa' birds, away!
Take a little, and leave a little,
And do not come again;
For if you do,
I will shoot you through,
And there is an end of you.
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Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Songs. [Song of a little boy while passing his hour of solitude in a corn-field.]
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