Read "The Song-Sparrow" by Henry van Dyke online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
There is a bird I know so well, / It seems as if he must have sung / Beside my crib when I was young; / Before I knew the way to spell / The name of even the smallest bird, / His gentle-joyful song I heard.
Now see if you can tell, my dear.