in-moments

Updated: May 9, 2025

Solicitude, fear, anger, are expressed with sounds that are mere lispings compared with those emitted by the bird when singing. It is worthy of remark that some of the most highly developed melodists and I am now thinking of the mocking-birds never, in-moments of extreme agitation, fall into this confusion and use singing notes that express agreeable emotions, to express such as are painful.

W. H. (William Henry) Hudson - Birds in Town and Village