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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It is impossible to take a walk in
the country with an average townsman - especially, perhaps, in
April or May - without being amazed at the vast continent of his
ignorance. It is impossible to take a walk in the country oneself
without being amazed at the vast continent of one's own ignorance.
Thousands of men and women live and die without knowing the
difference between a beech and an elm, between the song of a thrush
and the song of a blackbird. Probably in a modern city the man who
can distinguish between a thrush's and a blackbird's song is the
exception. It is not that we have not seen the birds. It is simply
that we have not noticed them. We have been surrounded by birds all
our lives, yet so feeble is our observation that many of us could
not tell whether or not the chaffinch sings, or the colour of the
cuckoo. We argue like small boys as to whether the cuckoo always
sings as he flies or sometimes in the branches of a tree - whether
Chapman drew on his fancy or his knowledge of nature in the lines:
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