28 PLEASURES OF ORNITHOLOGY. 



The Blue-bird (') that domestic Sylviad, he 

 Whom youth, whom age, whom infancy, respects. 

 Affords sincere delight what time the spring 

 He with his gentle melodies awakes. 

 And is there aught more soothing or more sweet 

 Than song of Bird upon some buoyant spray ? 



Go YE of Art the various music seek, — 

 The organ pealing from the gothic dome — 

 The din of instruments, and many a voice 

 That trills, amidst some gorgeous theatre, 

 Italian airs of difficult command. 

 At midnight; or to City concert hie, 

 Where mingled are the sounds of trumpet, drum. 

 The viol, and the harp; and there partake. 

 If so YE may, of Pleasure's splendid feast ; 

 Whilst I, in daytime, eve, or early morn. 

 With one fair gentle spirit, will away 

 And hide me in some distant woodland dell. 

 Where gushing waters from the rock descend, 

 And listen to the songs of Nature's Birds ; 

 Or, at the midnight hour, with quiet steal,— 

 For midnight hath her charms where quiet dwells,- 

 And listen to the Nightingale, apart 

 From all the turmoil of the world ; or meet 

 Kind Contemplation in the starry vault. 



(») Sylvia sialis. 



