Glimpses of the animate world; or, Science and literature of natural history, for school and home . hopes and fears it heeded not 7. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ;I have never heardPraise of love or wineThat panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. 8. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt,Matched with thine would be allBut an empty vaunt—A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want. 206 NATURAL HISTORY READER. 9. What objects are the fountainsOf thy happy strain ?What holds, or waves, or mountains ?What shapes of sky or plain ?What love of thine own kind ? what
Glimpses of the animate world; or, Science and literature of natural history, for school and home . hopes and fears it heeded not 7. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ;I have never heardPraise of love or wineThat panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. 8. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt,Matched with thine would be allBut an empty vaunt—A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want. 206 NATURAL HISTORY READER. 9. What objects are the fountainsOf thy happy strain ?What holds, or waves, or mountains ?What shapes of sky or plain ?What love of thine own kind ? what ignorance of pain ? 10. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deemThings more true and deepThan we mortals dream,0: how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? 11. We look before and after, And pine for what is not:Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught :Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought, 12. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know :Such harmonious madnessFrom my lips would flow,The world should listen then as I am listening now, I OTHER NEIGHBORS INTHE TREES. HOMES IN THE WOODS. 1. Of course, in the deep, primi-tive woods there are nests ; but howrarely we find them ! The simple artof the bird consists in choosing com-mon, neutral-tinted material, as moss,dry leaves, twigs, and various oddsand ends, and placing the structureon a convenient branch, where itblends in color with its surround- 208 NATURAL HISTORY READER. ings; but how consummate is this art, and how skillfullyis the nest concealed ! We occasionally light upon it, butwho, unaided by the movements of the bird, could find itout ? During the present season I went to the woodsnearly every day for a fortnight, without making any dis-coveries of this kind ; till one day, paying them a farewellvisit, I chanced to come upon several nests. 2. A black and white creeping warbler suddenly becamemuch alarmed as I approached a crumbling old stump in adense part of
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