52 BRITISH BIRDS. 



anxiety, caution, now succeed to harmony, and the 

 croak is the hush, the warning of danger or suspicion, 

 to the infant charge and the mother bird. But the song 

 of the true believer in Christ is not thus brief. From 

 the hour he is brought to trust in Him, he may unite in 

 the ascription which is constantly ascending ; " Unto 

 Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His 

 own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto 

 God and his Father ; to Him be glory and dominion for 

 ever and ever:" and often does he rejoice that it is 

 one which shall never end. 



" Nearest the throne, and first in song, 

 Man shall his hallelujahs raise ; 

 While wondering angels round him throng, 

 And swell the chorus of his praise." 



