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Title: The boy and the birds
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Taylor, Emily, 1795-1872. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New-York, General Protestant Episcopal S. S. Union
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ed so longtogether, that we think our time must bedrawing near to a close; and we shouldnot mind this, if we could be quite sure ofdying together. But if one goes first, wedo not know how to bear the thought ofthe lonely thing that will be left behind. Sometimes, when we are in a melancholy 54 THE GOLDEN EAGLE. mood, we talk it all ov^er, and fancy one orother of us, pining away in the nest afterthe other is gone. But we think it cannotlast long; that, as we were hatched in thesame day, so very likely we may depart.Therefore, my good, simple-hearted child,if when you are grown to be a man, youshould come this way, and look up at theeagle-rock, do not be sorry if you see notraces at all of us, but tell every body thatwe were a happy, faithful, affectionate pairof birds; that we loved each other always—yes always,—and never had a quarrel:and, when you see fathers and motherscaptious and unkind to one another, sendthem to this valley, and bid them look upto our nest and be ashamed. 1
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THK b.^GLii. THE EAGLE. There is not any living thingThroughout this wondrous frame That doth not praise our God, and bringFresh honour to His name.* Though wicked men refuse to give The glory thats His due,Still as they think, and speak, and live They pay this tribute too. Behold the fowls that cleave the air; They neither sow nor reap ;God feeds them with His tender care ; His love doth never sleep.f And they, with powr by Him impressd, The parents office try ;With hovring wing defend the nest. And teach their young to fly. • Psalm cxlv. 10. f Matt. vi. 26. 56 THE EAGLE. Yon Eagle, scouring oer the field,Will find sufficient food For natures wants, and plenty yieldTo all her callow brood. So, while we labour * let us learn,By His benign command. To trust in GoD,t and still discernA Fathers guiding hand. ♦ Thess. iii. 10. f Psalm xxxvii. 3.

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