. Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes . ney Laniers college note-bookwas found written this reflection: A poet is the mocking-birdof the spiritual universe. In him are collected all the individualsongs of all individual natures. Later in life, with the samethought in mind, he referred to the bird as yon slim Shakespeareon the tree. His exquisite stanzas, To Our Mocking-bird,exalt the singer with the immortals : Trillets of humor,—shrewdest whistle-wit—Contralto cadences of grave desire,
. Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes . ney Laniers college note-bookwas found written this reflection: A poet is the mocking-birdof the spiritual universe. In him are collected all the individualsongs of all individual natures. Later in life, with the samethought in mind, he referred to the bird as yon slim Shakespeareon the tree. His exquisite stanzas, To Our Mocking-bird,exalt the singer with the immortals : Trillets of humor,—shrewdest whistle-wit—Contralto cadences of grave desire,Such as from oft the passionate Indian pyreDrift down through sandal-odored flames that splitAbout the slim young widow, who doth sitAnd sing above,—midnights of tone entire,—Tissues of moonlight, shot with songs of fire ;—Bright drops of tune, from oceans infiniteOf melody, sipped off the thin-edged waveAnd trickling down the beak,—discourses braveOf serious matter that no man may guess,—Good-fellow greetings, cries of light distress—All these but now within the house we heard :O Death, wast thou too deaf to hear the bird? 82. Dusky, Gray, and Slate-colored Nay, Bird ; my griel gainsays the Lords best Lord was fain, at some late festal time,That Keats should set all heavens woods in rhyme,And Thou in bird-notes. Lo, this tearful nightMethinks I see thee, fresh from Deaths despite,Perched in a palm-grove, wild with pantomimeOer blissful companies couched in shady I hear thy silver whistlings brightMeet with the mighty discourse of the wise,—Till broad Beethoven, deaf no more, and Keats,Midst of much talk, uplift their smiling eyesAnd mark the music of thy half-way pause on some large courteous word,And call thee Brother, O thou heavenly Bird ! Junco (Junco hyemalis) Finch family Called also: SNOWBIRD; SLATE-COLORED SNOWBIRD Length— to inches. About the size of the English —Upper parts slate-colo
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