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<v Speaker 1>Section seventeen of Birds and All Nature, volume seven, number two,

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<v Speaker 1>February nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by Betty B.

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<v Speaker 1>Snow Birds. This poem, by Lewis Honore Freschette, the Laureate

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<v Speaker 1>of Canada, is very fine in the original and holds

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<v Speaker 1>the same position in French Canadian literature that Bryant's Lines

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<v Speaker 1>to a water Fowl occupies in American classics. It is

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<v Speaker 1>one of the poems that won for its author the

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<v Speaker 1>Crown of the French Academy and the Grand Prix Montheon

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<v Speaker 1>of two thousand livres. When the rude Equinox, with his

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<v Speaker 1>coal train from our horizons, drives a customed cheer, Behold

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<v Speaker 1>a thousand winged sprites appear and flutter briskly round the

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<v Speaker 1>frosty plain. No seeds are anywhere save sleety rain, no

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<v Speaker 1>leafage thick against the outlook, drear rough winds to wildly

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<v Speaker 1>whip them far and near God's heart alone, to feel

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<v Speaker 1>their every pain. Dear little travelers through this icy realm,

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<v Speaker 1>fear not the tempest. Shall you overwhelm the glad spring

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<v Speaker 1>buds within your happy song. Go whirl about the avalanche

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<v Speaker 1>and be O birds of snow unharmed, And so teach me,

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<v Speaker 1>whom God doth guard, is stronger than the strong C

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<v Speaker 1>G b end of poem. This recording is in the

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<v Speaker 1>public domain.