Through the country and the town,
Brown and gold, and red and brown.
[A STORY OF BIRD LIFE]
I
Once there came to our fields a pair of birds. They had never built a nest nor seen a winter.
Oh, how beautiful was everything! The fields were full of flowers, the grass was growing tall, and the bees were humming everywhere.
One of the birds fell to singing, and the other bird said, "Who told you to sing?"