The Oologist. 



Vol. XXX. No. 4. Albion, N. Y. April 15, 1913. Whole No. 309 



Owned and Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, A tbion, N. Y., and Lacon, III. 



THE WOOD THRUSH. 



By 

 Jacob Green, M. D. 



Professor of Chemistry in Jefferson College. 



When bright Aurora gilds the morn, 

 And music breaks from brake and bush, 

 And lotty oak, and lowly thorn; 

 Oh, then is heard the thrilling Thrush. 



He from some branching aged tree. 

 The early breeze with rapture fills. 

 The joyous notes sweep o'er the lea. 

 And echo from the grassy hills. 



The plowboy blithe at peep of dawn. 

 Whistling along his wonted way. 

 Now pauses on the dewy lawn. 

 To catch the warblings of his lay. 



But when the sun in glowing car. 

 Rolls glittering o'er the panting plain, 

 Then deep in shadowy glens afar, 

 He whispers there a lovely strain. 



But at pale evening's pensive hush. 

 When the gay glow-worm trims his lamp 

 Again is heard the thrilling Thrush, 

 In dewy dells and valleys damp. 



Published in The Cabinet of Nat- 

 ural History and American Field 

 Sports, vol. Ill, page 79 (1833). 



