 | Robert Bloomfield - 1806 - 198 Seiten
...And all his harvest gather'd round his door. But still unsafe the big swoln grain below, A fav'rite morsel with the Rook and Crow ; From field to field...increasing goes; To level crops most formidable foes : Then- danger well the wary plunderers know, And place a watch on some conspicuous bough ; Yet oft... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 Seiten
...big swoln grain below, A favourite morsel with the rook and crow ; From field to field, the flight increasing, goes ; To level crops, most formidable...place a watch on some conspicuous bough. Yet oft the skulking gunner by surprise Will scatter death among them as they rise ; These hung in triumph round... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...And all his harvest gather'd round his door. But still unsafe the Big swolu grain below, A fav'rite morsel with the rook and crow ; From field to field...place a watch on some conspicuous bough ; Yet oft the skulking gunner by surprise Will scatter death amongst them as they rise. These, hung in triumph round... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1832 - 566 Seiten
...them take flight, and always in an opposite direction to that from which the danger is apprehended. ' Their danger well the wary plunderers know, ' And place a watch on some conspicuous bough.' As the rook is a favourite, I am always sorry to see it during a hard frost. Instead of being that... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1835 - 248 Seiten
...them take flight, and always in an opposite direction to that from which the danger is apprehended. ' Their danger well the wary plunderers know, And place a watch on some conspicuous bough.' As the rook is a favorite, I am always sorry to see it during a hard frost. Instead of being that active,... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 Seiten
...And all his harvest gather'd round his door, But still unsafe the hig swoln grain below, A favourite hough ; Yet oft the skulking gunner hy surprise Will scatter death amongst them as they rise. These,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 Seiten
...But still unsafe the Lig swoln grain below, A fiv .urite morsel with the rook and crow ; Fiom fu-Id to field the flock increasing goes: To level crops...plunderers know, And place a watch on some conspicuous hough; Yet oft the skulking gunner by suiprise Will scatter death amongst them as they rise. These,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 Seiten
...And all his harvest gather'd round his door, But still unsafe the big swoln grain below, A favourite 1 a 1 i To level crops most formidable foes ; Their danger well the wary plunderers know, And place a watch... | |
 | British birds - 1840 - 326 Seiten
...These birds are by no means deficient in sagacity ; and hence it has been said : — " Their dangers well the wary plunderers know, And place a watch on some conspicuous bough." Nor are they indifferent to the signal he gives: as soon as they hear it they take flight, and always... | |
 | James Thomson - 1842 - 440 Seiten
...below, A fav'rite morsel with the Rook (l) and Crow ; From field to field the flocks-increasing goes j To level crops most formidable foes : Their danger...scatter death amongst them as they rise. These, hung in trinmph round the spacious field, At best will but a short-lived terror yield : Nor guards of property... | |
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From field to field the flock increasing goes ; To level crops most formidable foes : Their danger well the wary plunderers know, And place a watch on some conspicuous bough ; Yet oft the skulking gunner by surprise Will scatter death amongst them as... 
