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their winter quarters, and the Woodcock being then 

 uuahle to obtain the needful sustenance, is obliged to 

 change its quarters, and ^Yhilst removing by slow degrees 

 to the South, it renews, at its several halting-places, its 

 attempts to obtain food. And its return to the North in 

 the spring is equally easy of explanation ; for in addition 

 to its desire to revisit its old haunts, where it no doubt 

 finds both climate and soil more congenial to its habits, is 

 added another powerful influence, — the sexual feeling. 



LAMENT OF THE BIRDS OF PASSAGE. 



Behold ! the biixls fly 



From GautMocVs straud, 

 And seek witJi a sigh 



Some far foreign hmd. 

 The sounds of their woe 



With hollow winds blend : 

 " Where now must we go 1 



Our flight whither tend I " 

 'Tis thus unto heaven that their wailiugs ascend. 



" Tlie Scandian shore 



We leave in despair ; 

 Our days glided o'er 



So blissfully there. 

 We there built our nest 



Among bright blooniLug trees, 

 There rock'd us to rest 



The balm-bearing breeze ; 

 But nov/ to far lands we must travei-se the seas. 



" With rose-crown all bright 



On tresses of gold, 

 The midsummer night, 



It was sweet to behold. 

 The calm was so deep, 



So lovely the ray, 

 We could not then sleep ; 



But wore tranced on the spray, 

 Till waken'd by beams from the liright car of Day. 



