The fountain : with jets of new meanings . just right—if the shrubs and vines along thewalls are truly graceful and poetical—if the cloudysky does not cast a too deep shade upon orchards andverges of forests—then, on that day, you may expectsome great music from robins, bobolinks, song-spar-rows, linnets, and meadow-larks. The sounds of birds express feelings and emotions ;not thoughts and wishes, which imply embody in their songs the sensations of love-ladenbosoms ; which are sometimes happy, sometimes fear-ful, sometimes angry, sometimes coquettish, sometimesfilled with avers
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . just right—if the shrubs and vines along thewalls are truly graceful and poetical—if the cloudysky does not cast a too deep shade upon orchards andverges of forests—then, on that day, you may expectsome great music from robins, bobolinks, song-spar-rows, linnets, and meadow-larks. The sounds of birds express feelings and emotions ;not thoughts and wishes, which imply embody in their songs the sensations of love-ladenbosoms ; which are sometimes happy, sometimes fear-ful, sometimes angry, sometimes coquettish, sometimesfilled with aversion, sometimes overflowing with fond-ness and joy; thus resembling, rudimentally andgerminally, the higher human heart when not gov-erned by reflection and wisdom. What must we think of that boy who could de-liberately shoot or stone the worlds loving minstrels ?Behold the wonderfully beautiful nest of a broodingbird ! With what unutterable aversion must weregard a boy who could deliberately climb a tree SOLITUDE OF ANIMAL LIFE. 47. PUNISHMENT OP A NEST-ROBBER. in order to frighten away the motherly brooding bird, and thensteal the suppli-cating and de-pendent littleones which con-tain her heartswarm love andbeauty ? Remember,ye robbers anddespoilers of theweak and inno-cent ! — remem-ber that the sleepless justice, not less than the sustain-ing love, of the Unchangeable Spirit lives and rules inthe life of the tiny plant and in the smallest animal ofthe globe; and, likewise, remember that whatsoever ye do to the least of these my little ones, is done hyyou against the divine law of your immortal life / andthe consequence is, that by the inflexible and unavoida-ble judgment meted out by the just laws of thateternal life, your punishment and your mortification,for every kind and shade of offence, will be absolutelycertain—either in some day in this world, or in someone of your countless estates in the great infinity intowhich you are perpetually travelling. 48 JETS OF
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