• A day and then a week passed by:
      The redbird hanging from the sill
    Sang not; and all were wondering why
        It was so still—
    When one bright morning, loud and clear,
    Its whistle smote my drowsy ear,
    Ten times repeated, till the sound
    Filled every echoing niche around;
    And all things earliest loved by me,—
    The bird, the...