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with sylvan accompaniments,, such as the bloughboy's whistle 

 " o'er the lea/' and the gurgle of pebbly brooks, red in the 

 glowing sunset. 



When and wheresoever a bee may happen to flit, humming 

 past us, be it even near an apiary in the Adelphi, or a balcony 

 hive at Hammersmith, is one not borne at once upon her 

 musical wings to the side of some heathy hill ? and does one 

 not forthwith hear in concert the bleating of flocks, the burst- 

 ing of ripened furze-pods, and the blithe carol of the rising 

 skylark? or, our thoughts taking a turn more homely, we 

 listen in fancy to the sound of tinkling cymbal played by 

 rejoicing housewife to celebrate and accompany the aerial 

 march of a departing swarm. 



Thus sweet and infinitely varied is the concert of concordant 

 sounds, all of the allegro character, which may be assembled 

 for the pleasing of the mental ear, even by the simple and 

 single, and passing strains of the above and other insects 

 which make melody in their mirth ; and then how numerous 

 are the correspondent images glowing, smiling, dancing 



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waving, glittering, which are wont at their bidding to be 

 conjured up before the mental eye ! Glowing embers smiling 

 flowers dancing leaves waving cornfields glittering waters 

 all intermingled in a haze of merry motion an imaged 

 dance of life got up within " the chamber of the mind," at 

 the stirring of, sometimes, but a note of Nature's living 

 music. 



