I4 BIRDS OI“ P. E. ISLAND.

Longfellow gives a poetical turn to these faintly-

heard sounds of wings:

“ Oh say not so!

Those sounds that flow

In murmurs of delight and woe, Come not from wings of birds,

This is the cry

Of souls, that high

On toiling, beating pinions fly, Seeking a \mrmcr clime.”

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