"O Birds, your perfect virtues bring, 

 Your song, your forms, your rhythmic flight, 

 Your manners for the heart's delight, 

 Nestle in hedge, or barn, or roof. 

 Here weave your chamber weather proof ; 

 Forgive our harms, and condescend 

 To man, as to a lubber friend, 

 And, generous, teach his awkward race 

 Courage, and probity, and grace!" 



EMERSON. 



