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Excerpt from By-Ways and Bird Notes
The mocking-bird has been called the American nightingale, with a View, no doubt, to in?icting a compliment involving the opera tion, known to us all, of damning with faint praise. The nightingale presumably is not the sufferer by the comparison, since she holds immemorial title to preeminence amongst sing ing-birds. The story Of Philomela, however, as first told, was not an especially pleasing one, and the poets made no great use of it. Nowhere in Greek or Roman literature, so far as I know, is there any genuine lyric apostro phe to the nightingale comparable to Sappho's fragment To file Rose; still the bird has a prestige gathered from centuries Of poetry and upheld by the master romancers Of the world.
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