[3] The Mocking-bird and the Nonpareil are birds peculiar to the south.

THE DYING AND THE DEAD.

Come to the bed of death!

Draw near—the dying hour has come;

The spirit now is going home!

Come, see the suff’rer—almost free

From life, and life’s last agony—

Resign his breath!

Beautiful sight—but sad!

That cheek, so lately clad