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But in man's dwelling I'm become a thing, 

 Restless and worn, and stern, and wearisome, 

 Droop as a wild-born falcon with dipt wing, 

 To whom the boundless air alone were home ; 

 Then conies my fit again, which to o'ercome, 

 As eagerly the barr'd-up bird will beat 

 His breast and beak against his wiry dome, 

 Till the blood tinge his plumage ; so the heat 

 Of my impeded soul does through this bosom eat. {A pause.) 



Poor captive nightingales, how have I watched your oft 

 repeated efforts for hberty, when nature has told you it was 

 time to go ! how deeply have I shared in your disappoint- 

 ment ! {A long pause.) 

 Enter Entomophilus (frotn mothing). 



Entomophilus. What, moping again ! for ever on the dolo- 

 rous (sits), migratory, I suppose — wrapt in fancy — sighing 

 for ideal good, like the infant stretching out her little hand 

 towards the moon — so — and whimpering and squalling because 

 her nurse can't get it for her. — All the Jewell family a-bed ? 

 Are we going to have any supper ? 



Erro. Yes, go I will — sooner or later ; Humboldt was 

 disappointed a dozen times, yet what did he not accomplish 

 at last? 



Ent. Shall I summon him ? 



Erro. You have not forgotten that hallucination, then; 

 but I am glad to hear you allude to it jokingly. 



Ent. Jokingly ! — I never was more serious, (rises and 

 places a chair between them) say who it shall be. 



Erro. Poor fellow ! every man is mad on some point. 

 (musingly.) 



Ent. a truism, no doubt — your crack induces migratory 

 dreams ; but before fixing a crack in my pate, have the good- 

 ness to give me a hearing ; mention but a name past or 

 present, dead or living — who shall it be ? — Stephens ? — 

 MacLeay?— Aristotle ?—Waterton?— Humboldt?— Dr. ? 



Erro. Well, call the doctor, then; come, begin the 



incantation — 



Being or spirit. 



Whatever thou art. 

 Who still dost inherit 



A whole or a part ; 

 Of the form of thy l)irtli, 



Of the mould of thy 



