Now blessings on ye all, ye heroic race, 



Who keep their primitive powers and rights so well, 



Though men and angels fell. 



Of all material lives the highest place 



To you is justly given, 



And ways and walks the nearest heaven. 



Cowley. 



Whose household words are songs in many keys, 

 Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught ; 

 Whose habitations in the tree-tops even 

 Are half-way houses on the road to heaven. 



Longfellow. 



I have often reflected with surprise on the diversity of the means 

 for producing music with insects, and still more with birds. We thus 

 get a high idea of the importance of song in the animal kingdom. 



Darwin. 



Many kyndes of voyces are in the world, ande none off them with- 

 out significacion. — Tyndall's trans, of 2 Cor. xiv. 10. 



