WOOD PEWEa 



etc. 



He does not fancy this juggling with so good a motive, 

 he takes it more seriously, and sings with feeling: 



=s 



There is an ineffable grace, almost a religious solemnity 

 to the little melody when it is sung that way ! Mr 

 Henry Oldes calls attention to this character of the 

 Wood Pewee's song, and so do many well-known writ- 

 ers; but Mr. Cheney does best of all, for he makes a 

 hymn of the plaintive call, which I have taken the lib- 

 erty of harmonizing, thus: 



fhisistheTf-f-r? Thi 



F^E r'WlF? 



eras. I _ dr,L ^ 



Tnp. 



S 

 *P 





Then Mr. Cheney significantly adds: "You see how 

 much there is in that little, and how much of interest 

 can be said that has never been said." A propos of the 

 serious nature of the song, Dr. Elliot Cowes writes : 

 " Wherever it may fix its home, whether in the seclusion 

 of sylvan retreats or in the vicinity of man's abode, its 



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