Show edward 0 hark why cant can t our school officials off caal arrange to have the school chil dren observe bird day this year in connection con connect necton on ath w th arborday arbor day exert ses sesa trees and birds are valuable to man in a practical way their presence also makes life pleasanter for us all and we ought to encourage their growth song sparrow is the true her THE JL aid ald ot of the spring and ing the fact that the robin and bluebird have that honor of men the song sofig sparrow is the singe of the he year neither winter cold lor jor mummer summer hedt heit has power to check h s tuneful desires in the february fields teben when the snow still lies banked deep the confining fences the song voices the promise of spring before the robin and the bluebird dare in august when every other bi bird rd is stilled and the earth Is baked bild nd the green Is parched the song sings of coming autumn rains in n no month of the year is he wholly eilent lent and though storm and hungen force tore him to long journeys be he has ft i song ready for each new resting place the search tor for a sweet and perfect optimism ends with the song the bird Is nothing to the eye and everything ery thing to the ear he dresses in arabs arabs and browns with akings of black and bay and ash with white enough below to make prominent an anda thi identifying brown patch on the preast breast the song sparrow gave the frost aund bound pilgrims 0 of the plymouth col ony jony the first hope that some where beyond the awful winter lay the spring he has been giving the same icord d of 0 hope to every northern farm tor T ang or household for nearly three cantu nes ries the robin and the bluebird are con beautiful the song spar row is an ugly duckling and while he ho 0 pipes his spring song tor for a week before the others come the ones in fine ral ment as is the way of things in this world get the credit and the welcome the song sparrow ought to have boni won some songs in return for bis his music but most of the poets have been ne neg 9 george parsons I 1 lathrop who di did much more in prose tha than poetry faai nevertheless moved out of his wont to sing when he heard the spring song sparrow at his garden gate glimmers gay the leafless thicket close bes de my garden gate where so 1 from post to wicket hops the sparrow bl the sedate wl 0 with meekly folded wl s g comes to sun himself and sins sing mr lathrop caught the manner of the sparrow and drew his proper pic ture let not everyone however look tor for the song sparrow at his garden gate the birds bird s presence there de altogether on the garden the thel sons song sparrow shuns no man save the man who makes artificial his surround ings it is the old fashioned garden with tangles here and there that the song sparrow loves he ile does not de epise the fruit garden and though like ai f A meadow lark singing the soaring lark he prefers prefer to make bis ills nest on the ground he on occasion will place it in the currant bush or I 1 in some thicket which the hand ot of the gardener has spared F schuyler mathews in his field book ot wild birds and their music 4 declares that the song sparrow de votes himself to pure simple melody jand Is in consequence the best ex of the song motive among all the members of the feathered tribe mr air mathews has made a transcript tran scrip tion of the song of the sparrow and has set it down in notes so that man may play it upon his interpreting in et st he ile finds a swing and ac so cent to these few tones which perfect ly IY express an exultant feeling some thing akin to that so eloquently given to the first bars of siegmund a love song in the lungen lied john burroughs interprets the song s music thus geee sm ee et e t pwee e t swee e t bitter and tao en he isaas that this is a r simple bit ajro ro I 1 found summing up ot of ufa life |