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CONCLUSION. 
Who is there with feelings at all alive to the beauties 
of nature that can spend the delightful month of 
May in the country, and not feel the effects produced 
on their hearts by the songs of those sylvan poets, our 
national melodists ? To me, the exquisite enjoyment 
I derive from a May-morning walk surpasses all 
the splendour and attractions the most brilliant as- 
sembly can oflfer. A dear departed friend, whom 
fashion compelled to reside in the metropolis during 
the season, (which now, alas ! includes the most 
delightful time of the year for the country,) used to 
say, " Give me a cottage, with plenty of roses, where 
I can enjoy the concert of birds in the morning, 
amid their own sweet seclusion Mr. Knapp, 
an equal admirer of early morning, and the dear 
