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'Perhaps the contrary, Skepsey said: it might be judged to have accelerated his course: and his hat dripped, and his coat shone, and he soaped his hands, cheerful as an ouzel-cock when the sun is out again. 'Many cracked crowns lately, in the Manly Art? Colney inquired of him.
'The ouzel-cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill; The throstle with his note so true: The wren with little quill; The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo gray' and all the rest of the birds of the air. Why is it, again, that so few of our modern songs are truly songful, and fit to be set to music?
The flute is mellow, while the "O-KA-LEE" of the starling is strong and sharply accented. Hence the aptness of this line of Tennyson: "The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm," the blackbird being the ouzel, or ouzel-cock, as Shakespeare calls him. In the line which precedes this, Tennyson has stamped the cuckoo: "To left and right, The cuckoo told his name to all the hills."
"Where's constancy rewarded? 'The ouzel-cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill; The rascal with his aim so true; The Poet's little quill! "Where's the moral of that? except that all's game to the poet! Certainly we have a noble example of the devotedness of the female, who for three entire days refuses to make herself heard, on account of a defunct male.
"Where's constancy rewarded? 'The ouzel-cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill; The rascal with his aim so true; The Poet's little quill! "Where's the moral of that? except that all's game to the poet! Certainly we have a noble example of the devotedness of the female, who for three entire days refuses to make herself heard, on account of a defunct male.
'Perhaps the contrary, Skepsey said: it might be judged to have accelerated his course: and his hat dripped, and his coat shone, and he soaped his hands, cheerful as an ouzel-cock when the sun is out again. 'Many cracked crowns lately, in the Manly Art? Colney inquired of him.