BIRDS AND POETRY. 
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the world to be joyous and happy as itself in this rough 
season, and wait until it is over. Its cousin, the Dipper, 
resembling it in form and habits, sings brightly from its 
stand-place on a lump of ice. Bird song, to him who 
knows how to interpret it, is a poem full of life and 
freshness, truth and good advice; it is. an incitement to 
pleasure, a home-greeting in foreign lands, and comfort 
in dark hours. 
