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Updated: June 23, 2025
Through every grass blade in the thousand, thousand grasses; through the million leaves, veined and edge-cut, on bush and tree; through the song-notes and the marked feathers of the birds; through the insects' hum and the colour of the butterflies; through the soft warm air, the flecks of clouds dissolving I used them all for prayer.
Yet it was not surprising that his quaint effort was crowned with so signal a success; as the birds could have explained, had their song-notes been rendered into human speech, Andreas had served an apprenticeship in caring for them which well fitted him to care with a mother's tenderness for this little girl, who, such was his love for her, seemed to him in all verity to be his own proper child.
A light hoarfrost whitened the ground and the keen December air nipped the noses as it hurried the song-notes of the score of little waifs who, gathered beneath the windows of the big palace, sung for the happy awaking of the young Prince Charles their Christmas carol and their Christmas noël: A child this day is born, A child of great renown; Most worthy of a sceptre. A sceptre and a crown.
You could hear the characteristic motion once or twice "the rush of mighty wings," but often a velvety rustle, long drawn out sometimes quite near with continual calls and chirps, and some song-notes. It all lasted from 12 till after 3.
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