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The Cuckoo, the Rail, and many species of Doves, are all emigrants.
"Were you in Asia? O relate,
If there your fabled sister's woes
She seem'd in sorrow to relate,
Or sings she but to celebrate
Her nuptials with the Rose?"
Alluding to the Ovidian fable of the Metamorphosis of Procne and Philomela into the Swallow and the Nightingale; and to the oriental story of the Loves of the Nightingale and the Rose; which is told with such elegant extravagance in the Botanic Garden.
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"And come to build anew among—"
Accurate observers have remarked, that an equal
