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Title: Birds in literature
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Churchill, Abby P. (Abby Peirce)
Subjects: Birds in literature
Publisher: Worcester, Mass. : Davis Press
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ve ever heard, being, above all others,serene and uplifting. Florence A. Merriam. Birds of Village and Field.^ In full song his voice is rich and sonorous; and a softertone, which I heard soon after his arrival, was like thefinest thread of pure gold. Parkhurst. The Birds Calendar.^^ It is perhaps more of an evening than a morning hymn,though I hear it at all hours of the day. It is very simple,and I can hardly tell the secret of its charm. O spheral,spheral! he seems to say: O holy, holy! O clear away,clear away! O clear up, clear up! interspersed with the finest trills and the most dehcate preludes It suggests no passion or emotion,— nothing personal,—but seems to be the voice of that calm, sweet solemnityone attains to in his best moments. Burroughs. Wake Robin.^ Unrivaled one, the hermit-thrush, Solitary, singing in the west. Selected. Then in that solemn hour I hear A hymn that comes so sweet and clear, So pure a tone, it seems to be A bit of heavens minstrelsy. Selected. 156
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THRUSH, WOOD Its large size, heavily spotted breast and the rich goldenbrown of its back, brightest on its head, distinguish itfrom the other thrushes. Florence A. Merriam. Birds of Village and Field.^ He is truly a royal minstrel, and considering his hberaldistribution throughout our Atlantic seaboard, perhapscontributes more than any other bird to our sylvan melody. Burroughs. Wake Robin.^ His calm, restful song rings through the woods like ahymn of praise rising pure and clear from a thankful heart.It is a message of hope and good cheer in the morning,a benediction at the close of day. The flute-like opening notes, Tome to me, are aninvitation to his haunts; a call from Nature to yield our-selves to the ennobling influences of the forest. Chapman. Handbook of Birds.^^ The wood thrush, having mounted to a perch so highthat his outbursts of heavenly music shall not be confinedto earth or lost in the surrounding shrubbery, pours outsuch a melody that he seems at every utterance to bee

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