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fowl knoweth and which the Vulture's eye hath 

 not seen. Is it not the wondrous pathway across 

 the sky, the unmapped, uncharted highway used 

 by the unnumbered billions of migrants that with 

 the changing seasons, spring and fall, have gone 

 back and forth, leaving no trace behind? I am 

 writing these last words here in Dixie Land and 

 from my window I can see the Purple Martins 

 just demobilized from the advanced guard of mi- 

 grants and the mighty urge is being born again. 

 What matter if I go ahead or follow? I am going 

 back home with the birds, my singer, my song, but 

 yours as much as mine, if you will open your heart 

 to the singer and the song. 



What means Alfred Tennyson by saying: 



"Ah ! sad and strange as in dark summer dawns 



The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds 

 To dying ears, when unto dying eyes 



The casement slowly grows a glimmering 

 square." 



A recognition of "The earliest pipe of the half 

 awakened birds" will banish the strangeness and 

 do much to eliminate the sadness and "While the 

 casement slowly grows a glimmering square" to 

 dying eyes, dying ears may hear in these pipings, 

 the first faint notes of the choir invisible. 



In very fact, the bird-lover, on the wings of 



