SN wa - MI ERK 4 a eS ~ a. __ es Oo — TEMPERANCE SONG. I asked a sweet robin, one morning in May, Who sung in the apple-tree over the way, What ’t was she was singing so sweetly about, For I’d tried a long time, but could not find out : “Why, I’m sure,” she replied, “you cannot guess Wrong ; Don’t you know I am singing a temperance song? . “Teetotal—O that’s the first word of my lay ; And then don’t you see how I twitter away? 12%