How many pairs of each are strange as incubus!
A synglottist is then a man’s another self;
But syncardism, than synglottism’s much closer, elf.
Besides our words, our signs, our written characters,
From hearts, there rise by hundreds mute interpreters.325
The birds about their secrets one by one communed;
About their knowledge, sciences, and voices tuned.
To pay their court to Solomon their notes they raised;
Revealed their capabilities; skill of each praised.
Not out of pride and vanity; excess ’twould seem;