The Turtle Love. 
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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 the most 
pleasing recollections ; its name is nearly synonymous 
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 die the other will never survive ; however, 
the author of these observations was an eye-witness to 
the death of a female Turtle Dove, who was unfortu- 
nately killed by a spaniel, in the absence of the male ; 
the disconsolate survivor, after having in vain searched 
