Nature
Eat, Birds, eat, and make no waste
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
Nature
Eat, Birds, eat, and make no waste,
I lie here and make no haste;
If my master chance to come,
You must fly, and I must run.
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Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Natural History. [Bird boy's song.]
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