Shot the brave prow that cut on Vinland sands

The first rune in the Saga of the West.

James Russell Lowell, The Voyage to Vinland.

Birch (Harvey), a prominent character in The Spy, a novel by J.F. Cooper.

Bird (My). Fanny Forester (Emily Chubbuck Judson) thus addressed her baby daughter (1848).

There's not in Ind a lovelier bird:

Broad earth owns not a happier nest.

Oh, God! Thou hast a fountain stirred

Whose waters never more shall rest.