MY STUDIO NEIGHBORS 



gun, forsooth nor welcome your " darling of the 

 spring," even though he were never so captivating 

 as a songster. 



The song and the singer are here identical and 



inseparable, to 



my prosaic and 



rational senses; 



for does not 



that 4 ' blithe new- 



comer," as Ten- 



nyson says, " tell his name to all the hills " 



Cuc&ool" 



The poet of romance is prompted to draw on 

 his imagination for his facts, but the poet of nat- 

 ure must first of all be true, and incidentally as 

 beautiful and good as may be ; and a half-truth or 

 a truth with a reservation may be as dangerous 



