Methinks I hear and see the tanager now.
A robin's nest, with young, on the causeway.
At Corner Spring, stood listening to a catbird, sounding a good way off. Was surprised to detect the singer within a rod and a half on a low twig, the ventriloquist. Should not have believed it was he, if I had not seen the movements of his throat, corresponding to each note, -looking at this near singer whose notes sounded so far away.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 13, 1853
Methinks I hear and see the tanager now. See May 15, 1856 (“. . . thought it was the tanager I heard? ”); May 18, 1851("The scarlet tanagers are come.”). See also A Book of Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, the Scarlet Tanager
Stood listening to a catbird. . . whose notes sounded so far away. See May 13, 1855 (“ Hear the first catbird, more clear and tinkling than the thrasher.”)
Methinks I hear and see the tanager now. See May 15, 1856 (“. . . thought it was the tanager I heard? ”); May 18, 1851("The scarlet tanagers are come.”). See also A Book of Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, the Scarlet Tanager
Stood listening to a catbird. . . whose notes sounded so far away. See May 13, 1855 (“ Hear the first catbird, more clear and tinkling than the thrasher.”)
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