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I TOOK the wren's nest; -- / Heaven forgive me! / Its merry architects so small / Had scarcely finished their wee hall, / That empty still and neat and fair / Hung idly in the summer air. / The mossy walls, the dainty door, / Where Love should enter and explore, / And Love sit caroling outside, / And Love within chirp multiplied; -- / I took the wren's nest; -- / Heaven forgive me!
How many hours of happy pains / Through early frosts and April rains, / How many songs at eve and morn / O'er springing grass and greening corn, / Before the pretty house was made! / One little minute, only one, / And she'll fly back, and find it -- gone! / I took the wren's nest; -- / Bird, forgive me!