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vorces : " In early, spring, the male birds may 

 be seen perched on some moss-covered stone, 

 -trilling their fine clear notes ; " and again : " I 

 have stood within a few yards of one at the 

 close of a blustering winter's day, and enjoyed 

 its charming music unobserved. The per- 

 former was sitting on a stake jutting from a 

 mill-pond in the midst of a cold and cheerless 

 Forfarshire moor, yet he joyously warbled his 

 evening hymn with a fulness which made me 

 forget the surrounding sterility." 



Forget it not, thou, good reader ; but rather 

 remember it in your own hymns, and your 

 own prayers, that still — in Bonnie Scotland, 

 and Old England — the voices, almost lost, of 

 Brook, and Breeze, and Bird, may, by Love's 

 help, be yet to their lovers audible. Ainsi 

 soit il. 



Brantwood, %th July, 1881. 



