On the voice of birds.

Philip Bury Duncan

Date:: [between 1830 and 1839?]

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the voice of birds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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NATURE’S CONCERT ; A Scene from Nature. Two nightingales with swelling throats Pour the full tide of rival notes; The soaring lark from fleeced sky Flings down his liquid minstrelsy; The thicket’s ’tangled boughs among, The blackbird chaunts his mellow song The little wren a lively strain At early morn renews again, And near, the breast of friendly robin In ecstasy of song is throbbing; And many a finch on many a bush Twitters his lay; but not a thrush Joins in the chorus; we may spare His song, as philomel is there: The cawing rook and cooing dove Make up this harmony of love ; All hearts the sylvan concert cheers, Attun’d by God to human ears. THE END.

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