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Updated: May 3, 2025
Meanwhile Madge Magpie went on working and working without, looking up till the only bird that remained was the turtle-dove, and that hadn't paid any attention all along, but only kept on saying its silly cry "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o." At last the magpie heard this just as she was putting a twig across. So she said: "One's enough."
It is often difficult to conjecture whether the many strange cries and notes uttered by male birds during the breeding-season serve as a charm or merely as a call to the female. The soft cooing of the turtle-dove and of many pigeons, it may be presumed, pleases the female.
Those who know little about cattle have written much of the meek and patient ox. Those who know them well tell us that the ox is the "most cussedest of all cussed" animals; a sneak, a bully, a coward, a thief, a shirk, a schemer; and when he is not in mischief he is thinking about it. The wickedest pack mule that ever bucked his burden is a pinfeathered turtle-dove compared with an average ox.
"Sweet are the charms of her I love, More fragrant than the damask rose; Soft as the down of turtle-dove, Gentle as winds when zephyr blows; Refreshing as descending rains, On sun-burnt climes, and thirsty plains." Thus rhapsodised the great Barton Booth, who could write harmless poetry when the cares of acting did not press too hard upon him.
"It is time now that I begin to live," notes Thoreau in the "Journal," and he continued to say it in a hundred different ways until the end of all his journalizing, but he never quite captured the fugitive felicity. The haunting pathos of his own allegory has moved every reader of "Walden:" "I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail."
At last the magpie heard this just as she was putting a twig across, so she said: "One's enough." But the turtle-dove kept on saying: "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!" Then the magpie got angry and said: "One's enough, I tell you!" Still the turtle-dove cried: "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"
Therefore Patrick, rejoicing at the pious purpose of the damsel, let fall her veil; and as it was at first placed on her from heaven, through all her life, covering her eyes like a dove and her knees like a turtle-dove, it remained as if it were joined to her face. Thus did the covering of the sacred veil exclude every alluring object from her eye, lest death should enter therewith.
The manner of the sacrifice was this: He took an heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram in like manner of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a pigeon and as he was enjoined, he divided the three former, but the birds he did not divide.
And he added in a lower tone: "Just as you are yourself, I'm sure." She made no response but began to play with her long gold chain. Her bosom swelled out the black taffeta of her corsage, and, with her eyelashes slightly drawn together, she lowered her chin like a turtle-dove bridling up; then, with an ingenuous air: "What is this lady's name?"
The shepherd lover calls Rise up, my love, My fair one, come away! For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone, The flowers appear on the earth: The birds' singing time is here, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land. The fig-tree ripens red her winter fruit, And blossoming vines give forth fragrance. Rise up, my love, My fair one, come away!
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