'^ TJiinh of your tvoods and orchards ivitliout birds I 

 Of empty nests that ding to houghs and learns 

 As in an idioVs brain remembered luords 

 Hang empty 'mid the cobioebs of his dreams." 



'^ What! ivould you rather see the incessant stir 

 Of insects in the tuindroivs of the hay, 

 And hear the locust and the grasshopper 

 Tlieir melancholy hurdy-gurdies play ? 

 Is this more pleasant to you than the whir 

 Of meadoio-larh, and her sweet roundelay, 

 Or ticitter of little fieldfares, as you take 

 Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake.'' 



LOKGFELLOW'S " BiRDS OF KiLLINGWORTH/ 



