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61. William Blake. Born 1757, died 1827 ; author of Songs 

 of Innocence, Songs of Experience, &c. The couplet in the text is 

 from a later poem, entitled ' Auguries of Innocence '. 



85. like Milton. See II Penseroso, 11. 56-64 : ' Thee, chaun- 

 tress, oft, the woods among,' &c. 



90. Shakespeare, Shelley, Wordsworth, and the Ettrick Shepherd 

 have sung, $c. See Cymbeline, n. iii, * Hark ! hark! the lark 

 at heaven's gate sings ' ; the lines to a skylark, beginning 

 4 Hail to thee, blithe spirit ' ; Wordsworth's * Ethereal Minstrel ! 

 pilgrim of the sky ' ; and James Hogg's ' Bird of the wilder- 

 ness ', respectively. 



123. the sweet o' the year. From Autolycus's song in The 

 Winter's Tale, < When daffodils begin to peer.' 



173. curious little passage in the poem of Spring. Lines 772- 

 88,-quoted below (p. 23). 



178. tame villatic fowl. Quoted from Milton's Samson 

 Agonistes, 1. 1695. 



184. Milton's chanticleer. L' Allegro, 1. 52. 



232. the greater poet's briefer words. Shakespeare : See Macbeth, 

 ill. ii. 



EXEECISES 



1. Describe the various kinds of poultry you have observed on 

 your visit to a farm. (Their structure, plumage, gait, habits, 

 &c.) 



2. Write a short essay on the scene which the lines 



Light thickens, and the crow 

 Makes wing to the rooky wood 



suggest to your imagination. How do they harmonize with the 

 mental environment of Macbeth in the scene where they occur ? 



3. Mention five or six migratory birds known to you ; briefly 

 describe them ; note the times of their arrival and departure in 

 your district ; and account for their migration. 



4. What poets have written about the cuckoo ? What made 

 the bird especially attractive to Wordsworth ? Who describes 

 it as a ' sweet bird whose bower is ever green, whose sky is ever 

 clear, that has no sorrow in its song, no winter in its year ' ? 



