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BIRDS OF P. E. ISLAND. 



Longfellow gives a poetical turn to these faintly- 

 heard sounds of wings : 



*' Oh say not so ! 

 Those sounds that flow 

 In murmurs of delight and woe, 



Come not from wings of birds, 

 This is the cry 

 Of souls, that high 

 On toiling, beating pinions fly, 



Seeking a warmer clime." 



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