. L'oiseau . Page 23-5. Chant.—ne séparez pas ce que Dieu a joint. Si vous placez un oiseau dans une cage à côté de vous, sa chanson vous fatiguera rapidement avec son timbre sonore et sa monotonie. Mais dans le petit-concert de nature, cet oiseau suj)ply sa note, et complète l'harmonie. Cette voix puissante se terrait par les modulationsde l'air; douce et tendre, elle glisserait, portée sur la brise. REMARQUES ILLUSTKATIVE. 383 et puis, dans les profondeurs ligneuses profondes, le chanteur se moque sans cesse d'un endroit à l'autre, s'approchant maintenant et se reculant maintenant; d'où les effets lointains qui induisent un

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. The bird . Page 23-5. Song.—Do not separate what God has joined together.If you place a bird in a cage beside you, his song quickly fatiguesyou with its sonorous timbre and its monotony. But in the grandconcert of Nature, that bird would suj)ply his note, and complete theharmony. This powerful voice would subdue itself to the modulationsof the air; soft and tender it would glide, borne upon the breeze. ILLUSTKATIVE NOTES. 383 And then, in the deep woody depths, the singer incessantly movesfrom place to place, now drawing near, and now receding; hence arisethose distant effects which induce a delightful reverie, and that delicatecadence which thrills the heart. Under our roof his song would be ever the same ; but on thepinions of the wind the music is divine, it penetrates and ravishesthe soul.. Page 241. The whin hastens, singing, to enjoy his share of thewarmth.—I find this admirable passage in The Conquest of Englandby the Normans (by Aug-ustin Thierry). The chief of the barbarousSaxons assembles his priests and wise men to ascertain if they willbecome Christians. One of them speaks as foUoMs :— Thou mayst remember, O king, a thing which sometimes happens, when thou art seated at table with thy captains and men-at-arms, inthe winter season, and when a fire is kindled and the hall wellwarmed, while there are wind and rain and snow without. Therecomes a little bird, which traverses the room on fluttering winsf, entering by one door and flying out at another : the moment of its passage is full of sweetness for it, it feels neither the rain nor thestorm ; but this interval is brief, the bird vanishes in the twinklingof an eye, and from winter passes away into ivinter. Such seems tome the life of man upon this earth, and its limited duration, comparedwith the length of the ti

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