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There, was no way for Lad to know, this morning, that neither of the car's other occupants had seen him as he lay curled up on the floor, three-quarters hidden under the fallen rug. The luggage had been arranged in the tonneau, before breakfast. And nobody had given a second glance at it since then. The sun was rising over a new-made world, alive with summer glory and thrilling with bird-songs.
We would, if we could, keep the pungency and aroma of her wild fruit in our cultivated specimens, the virtue and hardiness of the savage in our fine gentlemen, the joy and spontaneity of her bird-songs in our poetry, the grace and beauty of her forms in our sculpture and carvings.
All the familiar music of the world went on the bird-songs, the whisper of the wind, the babble of the brook, the rumour of the village. They all went on there was no pause, no hush, no change nothing to startle her only, somehow, they seemed all to draw together, to become a single sound.
"Orb within orb, intricate, wonderful." Other bird-songs can be translated into words, but not this. There is no interpretation. It is music, as Sidney Lanier defines it, "Love in search of a word." But it is not only to the real life of birds and flowers that the little rivers introduce you.
A Sunday-like quiet pervaded the place, whose stillness was never broken except by bird-songs and the rustle of the pine branches. The sides of the valley near its opening were dotted here and there with huts and cabins belonging to parties who had fled from the heat of the plains for the summer.
The landscape rung with bird-songs, and the girl, who had skimmed the cream off such a morning, looked up and laughed at her dejected friend. She had purple violets tucked into her coil of hair, her belt and under her collar. "What are you doing here? Why aren't you out trying to catch the effect of day-twilight in the thick woods?"
The Autumn-room was scarcely less bewildering, and the Winter-room was so dazzling that Doris shut up her eyes for very wonder. In the Autumn-room all the little musicians set about transposing the melody of the bird-songs from the major to the minor key, and they taught the Piper to bring his fifing into harmony with their voices.
In the halcyon Then they were but incidents of the day; in the mellowed Now we learn the truth of them, and catch their wondrous meaning. The flower blossoms are gleaming as colorful and fragrant today as they did in the Long Ago. The bird-songs are as tuneful now as they were then.
He softly opened the windows, to let in the morning breeze and the bird-songs of the early risers outside, then threw himself upon the couch, and almost instantly was sound asleep. Two hours later, before the household was astir, Ellen came down.
Among those of us who are in the habit of attending to bird-songs, there can hardly be anybody, I think, who has not found himself specially and permanently attracted by the music of certain birds who have little or no general reputation.
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