Excerpt from The Primary Union Speaker: Containing Original and Selected Pieces for Declamation and Recitation in Primary Schools Who painted your wings, My sweet pretty birds, And taught you to soar in the sky? It was God, said a lark, As he rose from the earth; He gives us the good we enjoy, He painted our wings, He gave us our voice, He finds us our food, He bids us rejoice Good morning, beautiful boy! H, slow to smite, and swift to spare Gentle, and merciful, and just! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.