Speaker 1: Section seventeen of Birds and All Nature, volume seven, number two,
Speaker 1: February nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by Betty B.
Speaker 1: Snow Birds. This poem, by Lewis Honore Freschette, the Laureate
Speaker 1: of Canada, is very fine in the original and holds
Speaker 1: the same position in French Canadian literature that Bryant's Lines
Speaker 1: to a water Fowl occupies in American classics. It is
Speaker 1: one of the poems that won for its author the
Speaker 1: Crown of the French Academy and the Grand Prix Montheon
Speaker 1: of two thousand livres. When the rude Equinox, with his
Speaker 1: coal train from our horizons, drives a customed cheer, Behold
Speaker 1: a thousand winged sprites appear and flutter briskly round the
Speaker 1: frosty plain. No seeds are anywhere save sleety rain, no
Speaker 1: leafage thick against the outlook, drear rough winds to wildly
Speaker 1: whip them far and near God's heart alone, to feel
Speaker 1: their every pain. Dear little travelers through this icy realm,
Speaker 1: fear not the tempest. Shall you overwhelm the glad spring
Speaker 1: buds within your happy song. Go whirl about the avalanche
Speaker 1: and be O birds of snow unharmed, And so teach me,
Speaker 1: whom God doth guard, is stronger than the strong C
Speaker 1: G b end of poem. This recording is in the
Speaker 1: public domain.