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Updated: May 9, 2025
The comparison between his two study-windows was in Ishmael's mind as he stood gazing upon the shadowy green fields and the starlit sky and water. Not long he stood there; he was weary with his journey; so he offered up his evening prayers and went to bed and to sleep. Early in the morning he awoke, and arose to enjoy the beauty of a summer Sunday in the quiet country.
I threw a pine-tree cone that I had gathered in my walk up at the little Vandal, and went out. "I'll wait for the sexton in my tower," thought I; "he'll not be long away, and I can see him as he comes." I looked cautiously up at the study-windows ere I went into the tower. I took out the key, for it fastened only on the outside, and closed myself tightly in.
The lilac-shrubs under my study-windows are likewise almost in leaf: in two or three days more I may put forth my hand and pluck the topmost bough in its freshest green. These lilacs are very aged, and have lost the luxuriant foliage of their prime. The heart, or the judgment, or the moral sense, or the taste is dissatisfied with their present aspect.
Another peculiar habit of the Hemp-bird is that of building a nest, and then tearing it to pieces before any eggs have been deposited in it, and using the materials to make a new nest in another locality. In former years I have repeatedly watched this singular operation, in the Lombardy poplars that stood before my study-windows.
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