42 TUCK : THE ORNITHOLOGY OF TENNYSON. 
‘(Enone’ leads us in thought to wilder scenes, but described 
with no less ae ; to 
k tall pines, that plumed the craggy ledge 
High over the blue Borge, and all between 
wy peak and snow-white cataract 
Letrmat the callow eciee 
while the ‘May Queen’ brings us home again, with its references to 
birds more or less familiar to most of us; 
The building rook ’ill caw from the windy tall elm-tree, 
And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea, 
And the swallow ’ill come back again with summer o’er the wave. 
Everyone who has lived near a rookery, or walked in spring over 
a farm in search of plover’s eggs, and heard the oft-repeated shrill 
‘ pee-wit, pee-e-wit,’ must admit the graphic accuracy of these lines. 
Then, like the owl, the blackbird has a little sonnet specially 
addressed to him; his depredations on the summer fruit seem 
to have been more readily condoned by the poet than by most 
owners of gardens, from the first two stanzas, 
O blackbird ! sing me something w 
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Where thou mays't warble, eat, and dwell. 
The espaliers and the standards all 
Are thine: the range of lawn and park : 
u 
All thine, against the garden w 
Describing the fresh beauty of an ideal May morning in the 
‘Gardener’s Daughter,’ the yor introduces the chorus of varied bird 
music ; 
From the woods 
Came voices of the well- Silent sone 
The lark could scarce get out his notes for joy, 
i red 
His happy home, the ground. To left and — 
e cuckoo told his s name to all the hills 
The — ouzel fluted in the elm; 
The redcap* whistled ; and the nightingale 
ad loud, as tho’ he were the bird of day. 
St. Simeon Stylites is made to speak of his solitary devotions 
thus :— 
rowned the whoring id the owl with sound 
Of pious hymns and psal 
and in the ‘Golden Year’ we find ini monarch of the bird-world 
contrasted with one of the smallest subjects of his Boe ets P 
Shall eagles n les? wrens be wr 
If all the world seid cst Bd ons, what sf ear 
e wonder of t pear were t 
But he not less the eagle 
* Goldfinch or Redpoll. 
Naturalist, 
