# Birdie's Morning Song

- Source: McGuffey's Second Reader (second-reader.gutenberg.org), Public domain, William Holmes McGuffey, 1879, via Project Gutenberg
- Reading level: Grades 1 and 2
- Subjects: Poems, Animals
- Topics: wake, darling, little, birdie, song, beautiful
- Length: 117 words, about 1 min
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BIRDIE'S MORNING SONG.

- Wake up, little darling, the birdies are out, And here you are still in your nest! The laziest birdie is hopping about; You ought to be up with the rest. Wake up, little darling, wake up!

- Oh, see what you miss when you slumber so long— The dewdrops, the beautiful sky! I can not sing half what you lose in my song; And yet, not a word in reply. Wake up, little darling, wake up!
- I've sung myself quite out of patience with you, While mother bends o'er your dear head; Now birdie has done all that birdie can do: Her kisses will wake you instead! Wake up, little darling, wake up!

George Cooper.

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## Picture credits

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- illustrator not named in this edition, Public domain (<https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14668>)