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As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.
As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.
To shoot at crows is powder flung away.
To shoot at crows is powder flung away.
 Come, seeling night,
 Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,
  And with thy bloody and invisible read more 
 Come, seeling night,
 Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,
  And with thy bloody and invisible hand
   Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
    Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow
     Makes wing to th' rooky wood.
      Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
       While night's black agents to their prey do rouse. 
 Even the blackest of them all, the crow,
 Renders good service as your man-at-arms,
  Crushing the beetle read more 
 Even the blackest of them all, the crow,
 Renders good service as your man-at-arms,
  Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail,
   And crying havoc on the slug and snail.
   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 
 The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark
 When neither is attended; and I think
  The read more 
 The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark
 When neither is attended; and I think
  The nightingale, if she should sing by day
   When every goose is cackling, would be thought
    No better a musician than the wren.
     How many thing by season seasoned are
      To their right praise and true perfection!