Crossword-Solution: VEERIES 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

SCHOOL I put my heart to school In the world where men grow wise: "Go out," I said, "and learn the rule; 'Come back when you win a prize.'" My heart came back again: "Now where is the prize?" I cried.-- "The rule was false, and the prize was pain, And the teacher's name was Pride." I put my heart to school In the woods where veeries sing And brooks run clear and cool, In the fields where wild flowers spring.

The winds so sweet with birch and fern A sweeter memory blow; And there in spring the veeries sing The song of long ago.

SCHOOL I put my heart to school In the world where men grow wise: "Go out," I said, "and learn the rule; Come back when you win a prize." My heart came back again: "Now where is the prize?" I cried.-- "The rule was false, and the prize was pain, And the teacher's name was Pride." I put my heart to school In the woods where veeries sing And brooks run clear and cool, In the fields where wild flowers spring.

Since this time we have frequently found the veeries; in fact one locality is known to us as Veeryville.

From one side comes the chirp of the winter wren, from the other, low, excited calls of veeries, and nothing but absolute quiet seems necessary to capture some of the charming secrets of their lives.