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Now go YE to the groups migration sends 

 On errands o'er the earth ; for pleasure some, 

 But more important functions stimulate- 

 Chief Incubation, and the sequent care 

 To rear the tender offspring ; others rove 

 In quest of food, or of more genial skies ; 

 Some in wild troops arrive ; but more, in spring, 

 Alone come unobserv'd, until their songs 

 Proclaim their presence in the budding wood. 

 The Cuckoo,{^) Nightingale^ shall ever please 

 The messengers of May ; — while others lift 

 Their voices in the meadow or the dell, 

 Or on the mountain ; chief the Sylviad tribe : 

 The gentle Willow-wren{^) — the Petty-Chajpsji^^) 

 Whose note Luscinia's rival, and a crowd 

 Of WarblerSj whom go seek YE in the wood. 

 The Golden Galbule, (*) too, that Orioline,{^) 



(^) It has been lately stated in the public papers that a Cuckoo 

 has been kept in a healthy state in a cage during the last winter 

 at Goring, near Worthing, and that in the spring of the present 

 year (1828) it ponred forth its well known note. The only in- 

 stance it is l5('Iieved of a Cuckoo having been kept throngh the 

 winter in this country. 



(*) Sylcia trocJiilus. — (3) Sylvia hortensis, or Greater 

 Petty-chaps.— ('*) Oriolu galbula, or Golden Oriole; 

 (5) 0%^ioUne is, of course, a bird of the Oriole tribe. 



