Approached and gazed, and gazed anew!

And then his wings he trembling shook,

And then a circling flight he took—

And then his notes began to rise,

A song of triumph to the skies!

And since, for many a day and year,

That blissful bird—the mirror near—

With what he deems his little wife,

His partner still, has spent his life—

Content if but the image stay,