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...Providence assigns them. One alone, The red-breast, sacred to the household Gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets...On the warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till, more familiar...

...Stands covered o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...The red-breast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardfal of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates,...

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...The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The wianowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence...sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to...

...Stands covered o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store,...sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to...

...Stands covered o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed his gode, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering...