Loveday Almira Nelson.
FIELD SPARROW.
(Spizella pusilla.)
⅘ Life-size.
FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES.
THE FIELD SPARROW.
(Spizella pusilla.)
A bubble of music floats
The slope of the hillside over;
A little wandering sparrow’s notes;
And the bloom of yarrow and clover,
And the smell of sweet-fern and the bayberry leaf,
On his ripple of song are stealing;