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OUR SOUTHERN BIRDS 



It is a little strange that of all the really fine 

 poems in which "hush" has been rhymed with 

 "thrush" since the time of Agassiz, the majority 

 have celebrated him as an evening songster. To 

 me the song is chiefly associated with the hour 

 of dawn, for the thrush is earliest waking of all 



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our birds. Morning after morning it is his voice 

 that awakes the sleeping forest, when the east is 

 streaked with rose. Can it be that our American 

 poets do not rise in time to hear him? Perish 

 the thought; have they not one and all praised 

 the morning hours? Thoreau, to whom dawn in 

 the woods was as familiar as sunset on the pond, 



