Song Birds and Water Fowl 
of this rustic specimen of arborescence, not by 
looking back six thousand years, nor by looking 
forward too far into its degenerating future, but 
by simply enjoying what it has to offer of flower 
or fruit from day to day. 
This bubbling wren, so joyously carolling 
upon an apple-bough in a fair day in May, 
will fittingly be the last in all this group of 
songsters—a scene as simple as can be imag- 
ined, and yet full of the three most salient 
aspects of Nature’s spirit—restfulness, activity, 
and joy—one of those many scenes in life 
whose impress is as lasting as the occurrence 
itself is transitory, and which will perhaps be 
remembered long after the tiny creature is ex- 
tinct that was the soul of it; possibly even 
after the tree itself shall have reached a fruit- 
less, sour old age, and been cut down. 
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