 | 1833 - 154 str.
...sent to Derby to toll the market bell. TTOGS in the garden, catch'em Towser ; 28 The Cuckoo is a bonny bird, She sings as she flies, She brings us good tidings, And tells us no lies. She sucks little bird's eggs To make her voice clear, And never cries Cuckoo ! Till Spring of the year. Lavender... | |
 | Dinah Maria Craik - 1860 - 360 str.
...flies, and sucking eggs, which no ornithologist has ever accused her of doing. "The cuckoo is a merry bird, She sings as she flies ; She brings us good tidings, And tells us no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs To make her voice clear ; And only cries cuckoo Three months in the year. First... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1860 - 272 str.
...flies, and sucking eggs, which no ornithologist has ever accused her of doing. "The cuckoo is a merry bird, She sings as she flies; She brings us good tidings, And tells us no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs To make her voice clear; And only cries cuckoo First she sings in April, Then she... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1860 - 270 str.
...ornithologist has ever accused her of doinff. "6* "The cuckoo is a merry bird, She sings as she flics ; She brings us good tidings, And tells us no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs To make her voice clear ; And only cries cuckoo Three months in the year. First... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 str.
...somewhere away." In Derbyshire one rhyme very prevalent is as follows : — " The cuckoo is a merry bird, She sings as she flies ; She brings us good tidings, And tells us no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs, To make her voice clear, That she may sing cuckoo Three months in the year." Among... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - 1878 - 566 str.
...zeitvogel ist der rabe. Kalenberger pm 284. 287. vom kukuk iingl das volk in Wiltshire: The cuckoo's a fine bird, she sings as she flies, she brings us good tidings and tells us no lies. She sucks the small bird's eggs to make her voice clear; and the more she sings: 'Cuckoo'! the summer draws near.... | |
 | William Andrews - 1880 - 342 str.
...little harbinger of Spring, the cuckoo, is very prevalent, and is as follows ; — The cuckoo is a merry bird, She sings as she flies ; She brings us good tidings, And tells us no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs, To make her voice clear, That she may sing cuckoo • Three months fn the year.... | |
 | Eleanor W. Talbot - 1887 - 52 str.
...high ? To sweep the cobwebs from the sky, And I shall be back again by and by. HE Cuckoo is a bonny bird, She sings as she flies, She brings us good tidings, And tells us no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs To make her voice clear, And never cries Cuckoo Till Spring of the year. ;.. ,,x... | |
 | Child - 1883 - 330 str.
...little Betty do? Give her another To match the other, And then she may walk in two. The Cuckoo's a bonny bird, She sings as she flies, She brings us good tidings, And tells us no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs, To make her voice clear, And never cries Cuckoo! Till spring-time of the year.... | |
 | Child - 1883 - 330 str.
...Betty do > Give her another To match the other, And then she may walk in two. The Cuckoo 'sa bonny bird, She sings as she flies, She brings us good tidings, And tells us no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs, To make her voice clear, And never cries Cuckoo! Till spring-time of the year.... | |
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The cuckoo's a fine bird, She sings as she flies, She brings us good tidings, And tells us no lies. She sucks the small birds' eggs To make her voice clear, And the more she sings " cuckoo, 
