The Spring Call

Thomas Hardy * Track #44 On Time’s Laughingstocks, and Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1909

The Spring Call by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

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Down Wessex way, when spring's a-shine,
&nbsp The blackbird's "pret-ty de-urr!"
In Wessex accents marked as mine
&nbsp Is heard afar and near.

He flutes it strong, as if in song
&nbsp No R's of feebler tone
Than his appear in "pretty dear,"
&nbsp Have blackbirds ever known.

Yet they pipe "prattie deerh!" I glean,
&nbsp Beneath a Scottish sky,
And "pehty de-aw!" amid the treen
&nbsp Of Middlesex or nigh.

While some folk say—perhaps in play -
&nbsp Who know the Irish isle,
'Tis "purrity dare!" in treeland there
&nbsp When songsters would beguile.

Well: I'll say what the listening birds
&nbsp Say, hearing "pret-ty de-urr!" -
However strangers sound such words,
&nbsp That's how we sound them here.

Yes, in this clime at pairing time,
&nbsp As soon as eyes can see her
At dawn of day, the proper way
&nbsp To call is "pret-ty de-urr!"

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