This morning it is very pleasant and warm. There are many small birds in flocks on the elms in Cheney's field, faintly warbling, — robins and purple finches and especially large flocks of small sparrows, which make a business of washing and pruning them selves in the puddles in the road, as if cleaning up after a long flight and the wind of yesterday.
The faint suppressed warbling of the robins sounds like a reminiscence of the spring.
Cooler and windy at sunset, and the elm leaves come down again.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 10, 1853
The robins sounds like a reminiscence of the spring. See October 10, 1851 ("There are many things to indicate the renewing of spring at this season"); and note to October 10, 1856 ("Indian summer itself is a similar renewal of the year, with the faint warbling of birds and second blossoming of flowers. ")
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