"Hangbird" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stands open now, And the wanderer is welcome to the hall As the hangbird is to the elm-tree bough; No longer scowl the turrets tall, The Summer's long siege at last is o'er; When the first poor outcast went in at the door, She entered with him in disguise, And mastered the fortress by surprise; There ...
— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck |
