. Twelve months with the birds and poets. Birds; Birds in literature. JULY. How well we loved, in Summer solitude To stroll on lonely ridges far away, Where beeches, with their boles of Quaker gray, Murmured at times a sylvan interlude! We heard each songster warble near her brood, And from the lowland where the mowers lay Came now and then faint fragrance from the hay, That touched the heart to reminiscent mood. We peered down wooded steeps, and saw the sun Shining in front, tip all the grape-vines wild, And edge with light the bowlders' lichened groups; While, deep within the gorge, the tink
. Twelve months with the birds and poets. Birds; Birds in literature. JULY. How well we loved, in Summer solitude To stroll on lonely ridges far away, Where beeches, with their boles of Quaker gray, Murmured at times a sylvan interlude! We heard each songster warble near her brood, And from the lowland where the mowers lay Came now and then faint fragrance from the hay, That touched the heart to reminiscent mood. We peered down wooded steeps, and saw the sun Shining in front, tip all the grape-vines wild, And edge with light the bowlders' lichened groups; While, deep within the gorge, the tinkling run Coiled through the hollows with its silvered loops Down to the waiting River, thousand-isled. —Lloyd Mifflin. ULY may properly be called the month of rest among the birds. With the nesting of May and June over, the weary birds are enjoying a well-earned rest, and the woods and fields are almost silent, and fewer bird notes and songs are heard and fewer birds are to be seen in July than in any, except the winter months. It is the season of "* * * stare-dumb dullness * * * When e'en the cocks too listless are to ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harper, Samuel A. (Samuel Alain), b. 1875. [Chicago, R. F. Seymour
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