THE FEATHERED CHOIR.
Dawn comes and with the dawn there comes the calling Among the trees of many voices, As birds proclaim their messages enthralling, And not the least -one but rejoices.
They waken to the joy of recognizing New life, as morning comes in splendour; Bright-eyed, alert, each sun-lit moment prizing, They greet their mates with flutings tender. Sweetly may come the perfume of the roses, Their glowing red like dawn-spires showing; But bird-song more the spring of joy discloses,— Motion and life with music flowing.
In praise of life’s renewal universal Fulfilling bliss beyond desiring, Around the earth proceeds the glad rehearsal As myriads awake to choiring. —W.P.M., in The Christian Science Monitor, June 2, 1937.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 47, 1 February 1938, Page 13
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118THE FEATHERED CHOIR. Forest and Bird, Issue 47, 1 February 1938, Page 13
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