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all the different operas; one of them had left
 

They remained about our home all summer, and as I sat in the yard I could

      “Listen to his rondel,
      To his lay romantical,
      To his sacred canticle,
      Hear him lilting!
      See him tilting
      His saucy head and tail puttering
      While uttering
      All the different operas under the sun,
      Just for fun.”
 
Towards the last of September I noticed that one of them had left.

ex William Watson Woolen, “May, the Bird Nesting Time,” in The Teacher’s Journal 9:12 (Marion, Indiana, June 1910) : 624-626 (625) : link

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William Watson Woolen (1838-1921)
see “William Watson Woollen and His Garden : Early Environmental Conservation in Indianapolis” at Ed Fujawa his blog Class 900 : Indianapolis (December 18, 2020) : link (accessed 20250131)
 

31 January 2025