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Title: Birds in the Bush
Author: Bradford Torrey
Release Date: February 7, 2009 [eBook #28019]
Language: English
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BIRDS IN THE BUSH
by
BRADFORD TORREY
Sixth Edition
Boston
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1893
Copyright, 1885,
by Bradford Torrey
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.
Wherefore, let me intreat you to read it with favour and attention, and
to pardon us, wherein we may seem to come short of some words, which we
have laboured to interpret.
_The Prologue of the Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach._
CONTENTS
PAGE
ON BOSTON COMMON 1
BIRD-SONGS 31
CHARACTER IN FEATHERS 53
IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS 75
PHILLIDA AND CORIDON 103
SCRAPING ACQUAINTANCE 129
MINOR SONGSTERS 155
WINTER BIRDS ABOUT BOSTON 185
A BIRD-LOVER'S APRIL 211
AN OWL'S HEAD HOLIDAY 243
A MONTH'S MUSIC 277
ON BOSTON COMMON.
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;
And hermits are contented with their cells;
And students with their pensive citadels:
Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom,
Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom,
High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells,
Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells:
In truth, the prison unto which we doom
Ourselves, no prison is: and hence for me,
In sundry moods 't was pastime to be bound
Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground;
Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be)
Who have felt the weight of too much li
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