...of wing : Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, AVhen the frost rages and the tempests beat ? "Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When...pride, The God of Nature is your secret guide ! While deepening shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench, leaf shelter' d, let us stray, * The angler's...

...unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When...pride, The GOD of Nature is your secret guide ! While deepening shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench leaf-sheltered let us stray, Till blended...

...of wing : Amusive birds !— say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When...deep'ning shades obscure the face of day To yonder bench leaf-shelter'd let us stray, * The zoology of the New World is essentially distinct from that of the...

...of wing : Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, When the frost rages and the tempests beat ? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When...pride, The God of Nature is your secret guide ! While deepening shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench, leaf shelter' d, let us stray, * The angler's...

...your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, sweet season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such bafned searches mock man's prying pride, The God of nature is your secret guide." THE cuckoo. This bird is about the size of a sparrowhawk, and appears about the third week in April:...

...of wing : Amusive birds ! say, where your hid retreat, When the frost rages, and the tempests beat ? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head 1 Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, — The God of nature is your secret guide ! While...

...beat ? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, sweet season, lifts her blooming head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The God of nature is your secret guide." Much interest and amusement may be derived from watching and noting the arrival and departure of our...

...tender pain relate. To mark the swift, in rapid giddy wing, Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing. While deep'ning shades obscure the face of day, To...stray, Till blended objects fail the swimming sight, A nd all the fading landscape sinks in night ; To hear the drowsy dorr come brushing by With buzzing...

...of wing : Amusive birds ! say, where your hid retreat, When the frost rages and the tempests beat ? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When...prying pride, The God of Nature is your secret guide ! 1 The angler's May-fly, the ephemera vulgata, Linn., comes forth from its aurelia state, and emerges...

...unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When...pride, The God of Nature is your secret guide ! While deepening shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench leaf-sheltered let us stray, Till blended...