Word count: 32

Song Cycle by Julia Howe, née Ward (1819 - 1910)

?. Oh the little birds sang east [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

Authorship

• by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861), no title, appears in Poems, in Rhyme of the Duchess May, in The Rhyme, no. 33, Volume II, first published 1844 [ author's text checked 1 time]

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Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west --
Toll slowly.
Oh, and laughed the Duchess May, and her soul did put away
  All his boasting, for a jest.

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