Bird of the luilderness, dearer than Philomel : 

 Echoes are telling thy notes from the hill and dell ; 

 Lovers and ])oets delighted are listening 

 When the first star in the deiudrop is glistening, 

 Waiting the call of the eremite forester, — 

 Lonely, nocturnal and sentinel chorister I 

 Prophet of gladness, hut never foreboding ill, 

 Caroling cheerily from his green domicile, , 

 Uttering whippoortvill, whippoorwill, ^vhippoorivill. 

 Sibylline, tuneful, mysterious lohippoorwill. 



Wilso:n^ Flagg. 



