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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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en Entranced when the nightingale calls! Could the skillfulest man in a life time Make one flute like the voice of a bird,Or build a cathedral as glorious As the groves where their anthems areheard?Art, science, philosophy, learning,- Can never the mystery attain;God alone knows the secrets of nature, He creates, He withholds, He explains.Every rosebud unfolds at His bidding. Every grass-blade, He calls from the sod;All nature fulfills its great mission. Upheld by the wisdom of God. As you say, I see no reason why theauthor should be ashamed of those lines.Here comes you father and old Fan.Get to work, fair maid, that he may nothave to bend his back; thats right. Andnow, farewell. Evelyn Singer. SING! BOBOLINK, SING! Sing! Bobolink, sing!Wliile glories of dawn are bright and so clear,Sing, while thy mate and thy nestlings are near,Sing while the sunbeams the dew drops now kiss,Soar, toward the heavens and sing of thy bliss!Sing! Bobolink, sing!Sing of thy bliss! —Du. A. C. Ferguson.
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THE BRONZED CRACKLE. (Quiscaius quiscula ceneus.) Perhaps no other of our native birdsis more generally known or often seenthan the Crow Blackbird, or BronzedCrackle as it is sometimes called. In-deed the number of names by whichthis bird is known, Purple Crackle, Com-mon Blackbird and Crow Blackbird,serves to show how widely the bird isknown, and, perhaps, indicates a ratherremote acquaintance in general not sofamiliar and close as that we have forrobins and bluebirds. The Bronzed Crackle is truly remark-able for his adaptability to all sorts ofconditions. The number of these birdshas probably been greatly decreased bythe changes which have taken place inthe country, but they now bid fair tohold their own pretty well, for they havetaken to changed conditions so natur-ally that nothing seems to disconcertthem. Whether the forest is clearedaway to naked fields, or whether the cityis built, makes apparently little differ-ence to the Crackle. He is at home asmuch in the city park as in t

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