. The bird . We exist throughchange. To these forcible alternations of heat, cold, fog, and sun, melan- 11 210 HARMONIES OF THE TEMPERATE ZONE. choly and joyauiice, we owe the tempered, the powerful personality ofour West. Eain wearies us to-day ; fine weather will come with themorrow. The splendours of the East, the marvels of the Ti-opics,taken together, are not worth the first violet of Easter, the first songof April, the blossom of the hawthoin, the glee of the young girl whoresumes her robes of white. In the morning a potent voice, of singular freshness and clearness,of keen metallic timb
. The bird . We exist throughchange. To these forcible alternations of heat, cold, fog, and sun, melan- 11 210 HARMONIES OF THE TEMPERATE ZONE. choly and joyauiice, we owe the tempered, the powerful personality ofour West. Eain wearies us to-day ; fine weather will come with themorrow. The splendours of the East, the marvels of the Ti-opics,taken together, are not worth the first violet of Easter, the first songof April, the blossom of the hawthoin, the glee of the young girl whoresumes her robes of white. In the morning a potent voice, of singular freshness and clearness,of keen metallic timbre, the voice of the mavis, rises aloft, and thereis no heart so sick or so sour as to hear it without a smile. One spring, on my way to Lyons, among the intertangled vineswhich the peasants laboured to raise up again, I heard a poor, old,miserable, and blind woman singing, with an accent of extraordinarygaiety, this ancient village lay : Nous quittons iios grands en prendre de plus petits. ^fc;.
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