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A Year with the Birds

Note 74 — Chapter VII · THE BIRDS OF VIRGIL.

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With that a great noise rises aloft in diverse contention, even as when flocks of birds haply settle on a lofty grove, and swans utter their hoarse cry among the vocal pools in the fish-filled river of Padusa.

—Aen. xi. 456; cp. vii. 700.

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