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their winter quarters, and the "Woodcock being then 

 unable to obtain the needful sustenance, is obliged to 

 change its quarters, and whilst 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 PASS'AGE. 



Behold ! the birds fly 



From Gauthiod's strand, 

 And seek with a sigh 



Some far foreign land. 

 Tho sounds of their woe 



With hollow winds blend : 

 " Where now must we go 1 



Our flight whither tend 1 " 

 Tis thus unto heaven that their wailings ascend. 



" The Scandian shore 



We leave in despair ; 

 Our days glided o'er 



So blissfully there. 

 We there built our nest 



Among bright blooming trees, 

 There rock'd us to rest 



The balm-bearing breeze ; 

 But now to far lands we must traverse 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 were tranced on the spray, 

 Till \\iikeiiYl by beams from the bright car of Day. 



