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5 deleted: until And in spring early summer when the hot sunbeams are poured lavishly down upon the snow fountains of the
Alps, the liberated waters sing jubilee, then is the flood time of our songsters melody, deleted: the his richest strains
course pour ing from his breast, like a river over- flowing its banks But as to the in fluence of the weather dark days sun-
-days seem all alike to underlined: him The voices of most song birds suffer a long winter eclipse, but I never knew an ouzel
to cease his singing in any season, or in any kind of weather snowing, blowing, cloudy, or clear, all the same he sings, never
a note of sadness no need of spring sunshine to thaw his song, for it never freezes, nothing wintry