Identifier: birdsillus131897chic (find matches)
Title: Birds : illustrated by color photography : a monthly serial ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Nature Study Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rong enough, we teach themhow to fly. Soon they are largeenough to hunt their own food,and can take care of themselves. The summer passes, and whenwe feel the breath of winter wego south again, for we do notlike the cold. THE BLUE BIRD, I know the song that the Bluebird is singingOut in the apple tree, where he is swinging.Brave little fellow! the skies may be dreary,Nothing cares he while his heart is so cheery.Hark! how the music leaps out from his throat,Hark! was there ever so merry a note? Listen a while, and youll hear what hes saying,Up in the apple tree swinging and swaying.Dear little blossoms down under the snow,You must be weary of winter, I know ;Hark! while I sing you a message of cheer,Summer is coming, and springtime is here! Dear little snow-drop ! I pray you arise;Bright yellow crocus! come open your eyes ;Sweet little violets, hid from the cold,Put on our mantles of purple and gold ;Daffodils ! daffodils ! say, do you hear,Summer is coming ! and springtime is here!75
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BLUiii JbiiKD.Life-size. THE BLUE BIRD. Winged lute that we call a blue bird, You blend in a silver strainThe sound of the laughing waters, The patter of springs sweet rain,The voice of the wind, the sunshine, And fragrance of blossoming things,Ah ! you are a poem of April That God endowed with wings. E. E. R. S-;^)IKE a bit of sky this littleI )y harbinger of spring appears,I eJ as we see iiim and his mateJ-^^^^^househunting in early-March. Oftentimes hemakes his appearance as early as themiddle of February, when his attrac-tive note is heard long before he him-self is seen. He is one of the last toleave us, and although the month ofNovember is usually chosen by him asthe fitting time for departure to amilder clime, his plaintive note isquite commonly heard on pleasantdays throughout the winter season,and a few of the braver and hardierones never entirely desert us. TheRobin and the Blue Bird are tenderlyassociated in the memories of mostpersons whose childhood was passedon a farm orbirdsillus131897chic

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