NATURE AND HER HARMONIES. 9 



the " country folk" this prodigality of " the benedictions of 

 the covering heavens" and teeming earth. 



But, thanks to our stars, we were not always thus " cribbed, 

 cabined, and confined I" That we have a heart still, and some 

 few tears left, to be spilt on occasion, we attribute solely to 

 the fact that we have lived much abroad in the freedom of 

 God's own woods and plains and rivers that our voice has 



" Awaked the courteous Echo 

 To give us answer from her mossy couch," 



in some strange, far places. 



We have met this same master Bobby Linkum masquerading 

 in another dress through the savannahs of the pleasant south, 

 and such tricks before high Heaven as the gad-about doth 

 play, must make the angels smile not "weep" to witness! 



But be comforted, thou of little locomotion ! thou shalt 

 know, even at thine own fire-side, this fantastical, as well in 

 his remoter wanderings toward the tropics, as in his love- 

 making time in thine own meadows for 



" Audubon ! 

 Thou Eaphael of great Nature's woods and seas !" 



has been upon his track. He with the 



" Power to bear the untravelled soul 



Through farthest wilds o'er ocean's stormy roll 

 And to the prisoner of disease bring home 

 The homeless bird of ocean's roaring foam !" 



Hear what he caught master Bobby at : 



"During their sojourn in Louisiana, in spring, their song, 

 which is extremely interesting, and emitted with a volubility 

 bordering on the burlesque, is heard from a whole party at 

 the same time ; when, as each individual is, of course, pos- 

 sessed of the same musical power as his neighbors, it becomes 



