HERMIT THRUSH, 
“aA other Lird repli- 
as above. 
Wagner himself, in the Ring of the Nibelung, has 
scarcely given a better song to the bird that addresses 
Siegfried, than this which a Hermit Thrush gave me 
one afternoon on a ferny hill of Campton. 
O! wheel-y-will-y-will-y-il. 
And how close it is to the last passage here in Wagner’s 
music, which one will recognize at once as the Tarnhelm 
motive. The little bird sang this strain, together with 
the Rhine daughter’s motive, to Siegfried. 
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