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THE TURTLE DOVE. (Columba Turtur.) 
Go, beautiful and gentle Dove, 
And greet the morning ray ; 
For lo ! the sun shines bright above, 
And the rain is pass'd away. BOWLES. 
THIS Dove brings to the heart and mind recollections of 
the most pleasing kind ; the name is nearly sj'nonymous 
with faithfulness and unvariable affection. The male or 
female is so much attached to its respective mate that it 
is said, perhaps with more poetry than truth, that if one 
