| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 8254 |
| QUOTATION: | While he hears in every spring How the birds do chirp and sing: Or before the hounds in cry See the hare go stealing by: Or along the shallow brook, Angling with a baited hook, See the fishes leap and play In a blessed sunny day: |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Nicholas Breton (1542–1626), British poet. The Passionate Shepherd (l. 43–48). . . Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press. |
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