 Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat, When the frost rages and the tempests beat ? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The God of Nature is...  The Natural History of Selborne - Page 78by Gilbert White - 1829 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1789 - 202 pages
...bloomy head f Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD OF NATURE is your secret guide! .f While deep'ning shades obscure the face of day To...fading landscape sinks in night ; To hear the drowsy dor come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket cry ; To see the feeding bat glance through... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 396 pages
...season, lifts her bloomy head ?j "'• V^,i Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, =• *''7 The GOD OF NATURE is your secret guide ! While deep'ning shades obscure the face of day To yonder bench leafjhelter'd let us stray,] -30 r Till blended objecls fail the swimming sight, And all {he fading... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 416 pages
...15? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head t Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD OF NATURE is your secret guide ! While'deep'ning shades obscure the face of day To yonder bench leaf-shelter'd let us stray, Till... | |
 | 1793 - 204 pages
...67 Whence your return, by such nice instinct led When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride ; The...fading landscape sinks in night ; To hear the drowsy dor come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket cry ; To see the feeding bat glance through... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her hloomy head > Such haffled searches mocks man's prying pride. The God of Nature is your secret guide. While dcep'ning shades ohscure the face of daj, To yonder hench, leaf-shelter'd, let us stray; Till hlended... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...beat? Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride: The God of nature is your secret guide. While deep' ning shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench, leaf-shelter' d, let us, stray, Till blended... | |
 | 1813 - 422 pages
...Whence your return, by such nice ÍBstinct led, " When Spring, sweet season, lifts her bloomy head ? " Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, " The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide." Lord Montfort and Colonel Delap. — The intended duel between these two gentlemen, we noticed in our... | |
 | 1816 - 338 pages
...Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, " When Spring, sweet season, lifts her bloomy head ? " Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, " The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide !" Most birds, at certain seasons, live together in pairs ; the •nion is formed in the spring, and... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...beat? Whence your return by such nice instinct led, When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The God of Nature is your secret guide. While deepening shades obscure the face of day, To yonder bench, leaf-shelter'd, let us stray ; Till blended... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pages
...beat; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When Spring, sweet season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride ; The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide. other of the small billed birds that feed on insects disappear when the cold weather commences. The... | |
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