“The tongue of forests green and flowery wilds,”
these, it seems, were man’s[28] teachers in the power of articulation.
“The joyous birds shrouded in cheerful shade,
Their notes unto the voice attempted sweet;
Th’ angelical soft trembling voices made
To th’ instruments divine respondence meet,
With the base murmurs of the water’s fall;
The water’s fall with difference discreet,
Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call;
The gentle warbling wind low answerëd to all.”[29]