. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . THE SPRING PEEPERS March rjfh LMOST any bright, genial day nowwe may listen for the first note ofthe spring peepers, the tiny piping frogsthat wet their whistles in the lowlands,and whose shrill chorus at the watersedge will soon usher in the April twilights,and keep the stars dancing on the palpitatingripples until the dawn. What would our New Englandspring be without this faithful music from the bog?How many of our sweet-voiced vernal birds, the favor-ite theme of so many of our poets, might not listenwi
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . THE SPRING PEEPERS March rjfh LMOST any bright, genial day nowwe may listen for the first note ofthe spring peepers, the tiny piping frogsthat wet their whistles in the lowlands,and whose shrill chorus at the watersedge will soon usher in the April twilights,and keep the stars dancing on the palpitatingripples until the dawn. What would our New Englandspring be without this faithful music from the bog?How many of our sweet-voiced vernal birds, the favor-ite theme of so many of our poets, might not listenwith profit at the swelling throat of the little Hylodes,whose pure strains have voiced the advent of springwithout the tribute of a sonnet, or even an appreci-ative quatrain — a voice in the wilderness, so far asany worthy recognition in poetic literature can show !Truly has Burroughs said that in Europe, where thisswamp music is unknown, such a chorus as that whichgoes up from our ponds and marshes would certainlyhave made an impression on the literature. There are a number of thes
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