Crossword-Solution: BIRDIES 7 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The heart plays dunt wi’ main an’ micht; The lasses’ een are a’ sae bricht, Their dresses are sae braw an’ ticht, The bonny birdies!— Puir winter virtue at the sicht Gangs heels ower hurdies.

The earth is decked wi' flow'rs, Mony tinted, fresh an' gay, An' the birdies warble blythely, For my Faether made them sae; But these sights an' these soun's Will as naething be to me, When I hear the angels singin' In my ain countree.

Softly she drew nearer and nearer, saying over gently, “Whoa, Lizzie! dear little birdies!” until she came very near and then she put out one hand towards them.

For soon we reach the pleasant place Of Once Upon a Time, Where birdies sing the hour of day, And flowers talk in rhyme; Where Bobby is a velvet Prince, And where I am a Queen; Where one can talk with animals, And walk about unseen; Where Little People live in nuts, And ride on butterflies, And wonders kindly come to pass Before your very eyes; Where candy grows on every bush, And playthings on the trees, And visitors pick basketfuls As often as they please.

The sight and sounds brought solace to my sprite; and I walked among the trees, and I smelt the breath of the flowers on the breeze; and heard the birdies sing their melodies hymning the One, the Almighty in sweetest litanies; and I looked upon the apple whose hue is parcel red and parcel yellow; as said the poet:— Apple whose hue combines in union mellow * My fair's red cheek, her hapless lover's yellow.