...electric wire. But ah ! the force of numbers strives in vain, The glowing scene unequal to sustain. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. The solemn fop ; significant and budge ; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge ; He says but little,...

...been then more versed in poetry, I might have addressed him in the words of Logan to the cuckoo : " Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. Oh ! could I fly, Td fly with thee ; We'd mak«, on joyful wing, Our anuual visit rounil the ^lobe,...

...Btarts, thy curious voice to hear, And imitates thy lay. What time the pea puts on the bloom, Thou fliest the vocal vale, An annual guest, in other lands Another...winter in thy year. O ! could I fly, I'd fly with thec ; We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring. Loo...

...lay. Soon as the pea puts on the bloom, Thou fly'st the vocal vale ; ' An annual guest in other lauds, Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...O ! could I fly, I'd fly with thee; We'd make with social wing, Our annual visits o'er the globe, Companions of the spring. Logan. LISTENING THE CUCKOO....

...on the bloom, Thou fliest thy vocal vale, An annual guest, in other lands, Another spring to bail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...O could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with social wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring. A CARD- PARTY. IT is related...

...bloom Thou fliest thy vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands, Another Spring to hail. STANZAS. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year ! Oil could I fly, I 'd fly with thee ! We 'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe,...

...tastes and hab'its. The poet re-fers' to this, when he says, in his pretty address to the cuckoo, — " Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year." It is only the male cuckoo, however, whose voice is here spoken of: the note of the fe'male differs...

...fliest the vocal vale; An annual guest in other lands, Another spring to hail. Sweet bird, thy bow'r is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. LANGHORNE. 46. Invitation to the Birds. YE gentle warblers, hither fly, And shun the noontide heat;...

...thy curious voice to hear, And imitates thy lay. Soon as the pea puts on the bloom, Thou fliest thy vocal vale, An annual guest, in other lands, Another...O could I fly, I'd fly with thee ! We'd make, with social wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring. A CARD- PARTY. IT is related...

...ii. p. 28. TPIE CUCKOO. (Citculm canorus.) " What time the pea puts on the blooni, Thou fliest thy vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands, Another...hast no sorrow in thy song, No Winter in thy year !" So sang a good observer and a tuneful poet, the Rev. John Logan, of Leith. By the time that these...