OUR FRIENDS THE BIRDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 337, 24 April 1928, Page 8

OUR FRIENDS THE BIRDS

There are few sweeter thing * * winter's d-iy than the rinsing the thrash across the t rugas- AMwe should be in any doubt, that o” Is repeated again *f.nd agM*song of uncon q.u era- e immus. lenge to lift up our * f“EjJ of endurance and hope. tfco»* can sing, but how precious which do, and how doublj •£. those which on the shortest . est days stint not the melo* knows no despair, bringing fort of music to our need. tfe* the real victors. scantiest fare into overfic wing ? In the music thus horn of there is special quality and There is something 6tT^ II SK-. this* in the winter songs o. Wros. cheerfulness is in truth a tnu *7 rerf c. circumstances at timesnios The light u:e warmth. tuemb£-££ lor them in summer time. bri ajt yet tuey build their m** o^ 0 *** of hope across a barren land a_ they were sure of spring » would fain go to moot her wiu» ogr Sot all the birds, uvwet er. are able of such arc-nt * cjilEfi songs of s me re r. lc re The cold bi-si or the dri™* r» cannot silence the i-rk .j(! to unfold hi- song. Others, so s, as.v.o that th» least t .--c . nips their mu. ic. Lu»-e -_ g, gclDI their -mgs live on the margin ration. ar.d with tae sl, f^“L t ** of temperature or ertuones* | suddenly cease. those bS* Kow i roc;—s, then. ?**?££*>** wo'"! wV-oS -M“5 when the year is untuned, : pe v .er. days o«* They are the seers, the -