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VOL. II. ' MARCH 1, 1889. . NO. S." 



LAY OF THE WHIP-POOR-WILL. 



BY WM. L. KELLS. 



In shady woods, by rippling brooks, 

 •I often love-to wander.;.. . : ..- r 

 And o'er 'thcleaves. of ,■ Nature's books, 



InicSKtfide to ponder; ; ,, 3 ... 

 And bften/'top^ at eve I. sit - . . 

 iV WiSk^l'd^aai:is, still,,. _ ~. • 

 Avid hear its-cheerless notes repeatt, 



The noisy Whip-poor- wilL. 



By day this bird in silence sits, 

 But when the light grows i ditn,'i 

 . . True to the call of Nature^ -voice, 

 ... . He sings his wild 1 wood hymn.-'. 

 *••«. JVhen most of . all the- 1 feathered race 

 In woods and ffelds are still,- ■" 

 Then, in. the lonely sombrc'woods 

 Is heard the Whip-poor'-*\viIl; ■:.,-. 



■y-t -'• :-Sgoji as the solar orb of day 



Is gone from hi?maia'sight';.'~. ': '-i'j. 

 And coursing oh her' trackless way 



' Appears the Qifeen of Night, 

 Beneath the maple's graceful shade, 

 That grows on plain or hill, 

 »r- :-. .Oc.where the cedar forms a glade, 

 ' *■;?;■■; ■/ Starts up the . Whip-pobr-witK : '* -' ■ '■ 



