Presently it was joined by another, and then by a third; and the birds, fidgeting restlessly on their bough, talked together earnestly and low.
Grey trunk, green bough, grey-green moss above the white, grey-shadowed floor.
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall— ,—— Down will come baby, cradle and all!
" The fox obeyed, and the musician fastened his paw to the left bough.
Well, when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, and it has fallen here, it has fallen.
How many a year Have you kept pace with me, Wan Woman of the waste up there, Behind a hedge, or the bare Bough of a tree!
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill ,, Beside it, and there may be two or three , Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
Either he bent over too far, or whatever the cause might be, the bough suddenly cracked, and that very moment the maiden slipped into the skin, sprang away like a roe, and as the moon was suddenly covered, disappeared from his eyes.
The ant seized the bough, and swam back to the shore.
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
Not a bough waved, not the gleam of a musket-barrel betrayed the presence of our foes.
If a bud open, gather it -- Lest you but wait for an empty bough.
Oh, to be in England now that April's there, , And whoever wakesin England sees,some morningunaware, ,,, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm--tree bole are in tiny leaf, , While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England--now!
In this fashion he spent ten days, following the bird all day and spending the night at the foot of a tree, whilst it roosted on the topmost bough.
Long before the approach of winter, your friend will have left you; and while you sit shivering on a leafless bough he will be sporting under sunny skies hundreds of miles away.
All at once the tailor was sitting on it, holding his breath, and making himself heavy, so heavy that the bough bent down.
" The fox obeyed, and the musician fastened his paw to the left bough.
When he awoke, the maiden said, do you see that the wood is piled up and arranged, one bough alone remains.
Either he bent over too far, or whatever the cause might be, the bough suddenly cracked, and that very moment the maiden slipped into the skin, sprang away like a roe, and as the moon was suddenly covered, disappeared from his sight.
" "The reward is indeed great," thought the little tailor, "one would willingly do something for it, but the cherries grow too high for me, if I climb for them, the bough will break beneath me, and I shall fall.
