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Updated: June 6, 2025
She used all her skill upon them, and brought up before their eyes all the visions she could raise; sunshine, and singing-birds, and waving boughs, and green grass, and sparkling water, they all passed before their eyes, but they heeded them not: once, indeed, poor Furchtsam for a moment looked with a longing eye at the painted sunshine, as if its warm light would have driven off some of his fears; but it was but for a moment.
"They are like imprisoned singing-birds," replied I, "condemned to wear out their lives in confinement, which they try to beguile by the exercise of accomplishments which would have adorned society had they been left at large."
I could hear the voices of many singing-birds, and a low monotonous hum that I supposed to be the noise of falling water. These were the only sounds that reached my ears. Was I alone? I looked inquiringly around the chamber. It appeared so no living thing met my glance. I was struck with a peculiarity in the apartment I occupied.
The little singing-birds that seem almost to have leaped unbidden into life among the gross creations of those old Afreets who "Stood around the throne of Shakspeare, Sturdy, but unclean," carolled their clear, pure lays to him, and left a quivering echo.
"There were worse places than Gib singing-birds were raysonable here, and some of them had rayl beautiful plumage." My countryman, like the Duke of Argyll, had a weakness for ornithology. "That spread of land beyant was where the races were held, and small-arm parties from the fleet sometimes kem ashore and practised there. They used to play cricket there, too.
The woods are all alive to one who walks through them with his mind in an excited state, and his eyes and ears wide open. It was now the season of singing-birds, and the woods were haunted with mysterious, tender music.
But when Spring burst upon the land with her blossom and her singing-birds, it was told the sons of Usna that the King of Alba had sworn to burn to the ground every stone that stood on the land that had been their father's, and to slay Nathos, and wed the Star-eyed Deirdre. So in their great galley they set forth, taking with them fifty men.
But if we leave the wood while those above described are the only singing-birds we have heard, we have either returned too soon, or we did not penetrate deeply enough into the forest. His notes are not startling or conspicuous; some dull ears might not hear them, though poured forth only a few rods distant, if their attention were not directed to them.
He also liberated the singing-birds from the mocucks, or basket-cages, where they were confined, which, descending through the aperture, have since enlivened the woods and fields with their melodies.
Most of our singing-birds follow in the wake of the pioneer of the wilderness, and increase in numbers with the clearing and settlement of the country, not, probably, from any dependence on the protection of mankind, but on account of the increased abundance of the insect food upon which they subsist, consequent upon the tilling of the ground.
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