HERMIT THRUSH. 



XHegro. 



' Another bird repli- 

 .edasabove. 



Wagner himself, in the Ring of the Nibelung, has 

 scarcely given a better song to the bird that addresses 

 Siegfried, than this which a Hermit Thrush gave me 

 one afternoon on a ferny hill of Campton. 



Ol wheel-y-will-y-will-y-il. 



And how close it is to the last passage here in Wagner's 

 music, which one will recognize at once as the Tarnhelm 

 motive. The little bird sang this strain, together with 

 the Rhine daughter's motive, to Siegfried. 



