Then from the neighboring thicket
the mockingbird, wildest of singers,
Swinging aloft on a willow spray
that hung o'er the water.
Shook from his little throat
such floods of delirious music,
That the whole air and the woods
and the waves seemed silent to listen.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Evange
The Mockingbird
displaying for his mate
May 5, 2008
