The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . hour of twilight!—in the solitude Of the Pine forest and the silent shoreWhich bounds Ravennas immemorial wood. Rooted where once the ,\drian wave flowd where tlie last Citsarcan fortress stood. Evergreen forest ! which Boccaccios loreAnd Drydens lay nude haunted ground to me,How have I loved the twilight hour and thee I The shrill cicaLas, people of the Pine, Making their summer lives one ceaseless song,?Were the sole echoes, save my steeds and mine. And vesper bells tliat rose the boughs alon
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . hour of twilight!—in the solitude Of the Pine forest and the silent shoreWhich bounds Ravennas immemorial wood. Rooted where once the ,\drian wave flowd where tlie last Citsarcan fortress stood. Evergreen forest ! which Boccaccios loreAnd Drydens lay nude haunted ground to me,How have I loved the twilight hour and thee I The shrill cicaLas, people of the Pine, Making their summer lives one ceaseless song,?Were the sole echoes, save my steeds and mine. And vesper bells tliat rose the boughs along ;The spectre huntsman of Onestis line. His hell-dogs, and their chase, and the fair throngWliich learnd from his example not to flyFrom a true lover,—shadowd my minds eye. But the Pine forest of Ravenna, that was for so long,is now no more, and all the world is lamenting. ThePine woods near Pisa and Florence, and in otherparts of Tuscany, are very beautiful, perhaps equallybeautiful, though not so extensive, as was the Pineforest of Ravenna, and immeasurably less interest-ing. Natural listorir. The Thrush.—In the northern counties, wherethe song of the jiightingale is never heard, there canbe no doubt that the skylark is the first favouriteamongst our singing birds. The next in our estima-tion unquestionably is the thrush, throstle, or mavis,as it is indifferently called. So far as we have beenable to judge, in the country for some miles aroundPrescot, the larks appear to be nearly as numerous asin former years, but with respect to the thrush thefalling off in numbers is most remarkable and muchto be regretted. The two winters preceding the lastwere very fatal to the thrush, but the last has beenthe worst of all. Should next winter equal it inseverity, the thrush will become one of the rarest ofour song birds. There are three species of the thrushcommon to the district. The largest is the thornthrush, which has received its name from its nestsbeing generally found i
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