Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]

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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907

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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

1885

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BALLAD.

 THE blackbird sings in the hazel-brake, And the squirrel sits on the tree; And Blanche she walks in the merry greenwood, Down by the summer sea.   

 The blackbird lies when he sings of love, And the squirrel, a thief is he; And Blanche is an arrant flirt, I swear, And light as light can be.   

 O blackbird, die in the hazel-brake!And squirrel, starve on the tree! And Blanche—you may walk in the merry greenwood. You are nothing more to me.   