Show B BIRDS Birds Birds the free freo tenants of or land air alt j and ocean Their forms all aU symmetry their thell motions 1 grace In plumage delicate delicato and beautiful I Thick without burden close as fishes fishes' scales Or loose as ns full blown to the breeze With wings that might have ha had a soul I 1 within them They bore their o owners by such sweet enchantment t. t Birds Birds small and great of ot endless J shapes and colors I Here flew new and perched there swam and dived at pleasure Watchful and agile uttering voices wild And harsh yet In accordance with the waves Wa 1 Upon the beach the winds In caverns erns moaning Or winds and waves Wa abroad upon tho the water Some Sonic sought their food tood among the finny shoals Swift darting from the clouds emerging emerS' emerS I ing soon With slender captives C s glittering gUtterIng in their beaks These In recesses of steep crags constructed con con- Their inaccessible and trained Their hard hardy broods to forage In all nfl II weathers Others more gorgeously appareled dwelt I Among AmonS' tho the woods on natures nature's dainties feeding Herbs seeds and roots or oven even on tho the S wing I ng Pursuing Insects through the boundless i alrIn air air- In hollow trees or thickets these concealed concealed con con- i ceale d Their exquisitely woven nests where 1 lay a Their callow offspring quiet as the down I On their own o breasts till from tram her search the dam With Hh laden bill returned and shared the meal neal 1 Among AmonS' her clamorous suppliants all agape alape Then cowering oer o'er or them with ex expanded expanded ox- ox wings She felt how sweet sweat It Is 18 to bo be a mother Of Ot these a a. few tew with melody untaught ht Turned all aU the tho air to music within I hearing I I Themselves unseen while bolder quirnO I nO loftiest branches 8 strained their clarIon clar clar- I ion pipes And made the forest echo to their screams Discordant yet Discordant yet there was no discord I ther there But tempered harm harmony on all tones combining cornIn com corn j bining In the rich confluence of ten Jt thousand I tongues To tell teU of Joy and to inspire it Who ho Could hear such concer and not join In chorus James Montgomery The Pelican Is Island Is- Is land |