. The bird . ht. According to Wilson, tlie swallows ordinary flightaverages one mile per minute. He is engaged in fljing for ten hours daily. Now, as hislife is usually extended to a space of ten years, he flies, in that period, 2,190,000 miles, ornearly eighty-eight times the circumference of the globe. 18 274 EDUCATION. The swallow, as Sir Humphrey Davy observes, cheers tlie sense of sight as mueh as thenightingale does the sense of hearing. He is the glad prophet of the year, theharbinger of its brightest season, and lives a life of free enjoyment amongst the loveliestforms of nature. There
. The bird . ht. According to Wilson, tlie swallows ordinary flightaverages one mile per minute. He is engaged in fljing for ten hours daily. Now, as hislife is usually extended to a space of ten years, he flies, in that period, 2,190,000 miles, ornearly eighty-eight times the circumference of the globe. 18 274 EDUCATION. The swallow, as Sir Humphrey Davy observes, cheers tlie sense of sight as mueh as thenightingale does the sense of hearing. He is the glad prophet of the year, theharbinger of its brightest season, and lives a life of free enjoyment amongst the loveliestforms of nature. There is something peculiarly beautiful in his rapid, steady, well-balanced flight,— Which, ere a double pulse can beat,Is here and there with motion fleet,As Ariels wing could scarce exceed;And, full of vigour as of speed,Forestalls the daysprings earliest gleam,Nor fails with evenings latest beam. To all nations he is welcome, and by all the poets has been celebrated with fond eulogiuni— Translator.^ Cft ,
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