Postlude 



after a brief period of " frost, of storm, and 

 cloudiness," the soft, reviving glow of spring 

 will overspread the sky, and the southern ocean 

 will send back its waves waves of thrushes, 

 finches, warblers, and the rest birds of wood- 

 land, shore, and sea; many of them doubly 

 welcome as old friends, with here and there a 

 stranger in the throng to give the zest of nov- 

 elty ; and, as courier of all the host, like a bene- 

 diction of dying Winter on the head of Spring, 

 Hope's special messenger the song sparrow ! 



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