The Fifth Reader for the Use of Public And Private Schools
The Fifth Reader for the Use of Public And Private Schools
George Stillman Hillard
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To these qualities we may add that of a voice full, strong, and musical, and capable of almost every modulation, from the clear, mellow tones of the wood thrush to the savage screams of the bald eagle. 2. In measure and accent he faithfully follows his origi- nals. In force and sweetness of expression he greatly improves upon them. In his native groves, mounted upon the top of a tall bush or half-grown tree, in the dawn of dewy morning, while the woods are already vocal with a multitude of warb...lers, his admirable song rises preeminent over every competitor. The ear can listen to his music alone, to which that of all the others seems a mere accom- paniment. Neither is this strain altogether imitative. 3. His own native notes, which are easily distinguishable} by such as are well acquainted with those of our various birds of song, are bold and full, and varied, seemingly; THE FIFTH READER. 255 beyond all limits. They consist of short expressions of two, three, or, at the most, five or six syllables, generally interspersed^ with imitations, and all of them uttered with great emphasis and rapidity, and continued, with undi- minished ardor, for half an hour or an hour at a time ; his expanded wings and tail glistening with white, and the buoyant gayety of his action arresting the eye, as his song most irresistibly does the ear.
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