Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885, Woodward, Alice B., ill · London, G. Bell & Sons · leaf 134
long silence,into song, and flying upwards, he sat on the top-most branch of the pine, and sang as loud as hecould sing to the sun and the blue sky. Joy ! joy ! he sang. Fresh water and greenwoods, ambrosial sunshine and sunflecked shade,chattering brooks and rustling leaves, glade, andsward, and… … AN IDYLL OF THE WOOD 105 the singers heart, which is not always the case.Thenceforward, though he slept near the ground,he went up every day to this pine, as to some sacredhigh place, and sang the same song, of whichneither he nor I w^ere ever weary. Let one be ever so inoffensive, however, one…
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