. The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries .. . d,The midsummer night, It was sweet to calm was so deep, So lovely the ray,We could not then sleep; But wore tranced on the spray,Till wakend by beams from the liright car of Day. 202 THE LAMENT. The trees gently bent Oer the phiius in reiiose, With suow-tlrops besprentWas the tremulous oaks 7iow are bare,The rose is no more ;The Zepliyrs light ;iir Is exchanged for the roarIt stornis, and the May-fields ha\e niiuitles of hoar, Then why do we stay
. The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries .. . d,The midsummer night, It was sweet to calm was so deep, So lovely the ray,We could not then sleep; But wore tranced on the spray,Till wakend by beams from the liright car of Day. 202 THE LAMENT. The trees gently bent Oer the phiius in reiiose, With suow-tlrops besprentWas the tremulous oaks 7iow are bare,The rose is no more ;The Zepliyrs light ;iir Is exchanged for the roarIt stornis, and the May-fields ha\e niiuitles of hoar, Then why do we stay In the North, where the SunMore dimly each day His brief cour.^e will rnn tAnd why need we sigh I We leave but a graveTo cleave through the sky * On the wings which God gau ,Ihcii, Ocean, be welcome the roar of thy wave. When earths joys are oer. And the days darkly roll,When autumn winds roar, Weej) not, O my soul!Fau- lands oer the sea For the biids brightly bloom,A land smiles for thee Beyond the dark Ijeams never fuding its beauties illume. (Vhamhcis Jiiiirmd, translateil fiom the Swedish of .Stagiielivis j. CHAPTER XV. Tlio Kiivs-Dnig.—Ekstnims —The Ijark-jii[)e.—Shooting mtlie -The Poachers Expedient.—Shooting with the Pointer.—In Scania.—On the West Coast.—In tlie Island of Gotland.—InSouthern Europe.—Tiajis and Snares. Tj^EWEEi Woodcocks, in propoition to their uumbors,-■- are probably killed in Scandinavia than any otherbird coming under the denomination of g-amc ; and tliisis easily accounted for, as, excepting during migration,when they congregate to some extent in the more southernparts of Sweden and Norway, it is hardly worth any oneswhile to go expressly in search of them, owing to theirbeing so very thinly scattered over the country. The larger portion of those that arc killed are probablyshot during the pairing and breeding season at the Drag,or Boding-stand, recently mentioned,—a prac-tice that we in England
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