<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509460" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sermon of the Birds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was clearing thirty or forty acres once<br>Out in the western range near Nightcap Mountain.<br>And as I was working, I heard a gathering of the crows<br>Singing out in a jungle gully. Their clamorous cries<br>Drawed the attention of all the other birds.<br>Jackass and butcher-bird, soldier-bird, sparrow-bird,<br>Scrub-robin, magpie, and the black and white cockatoo,<br>They all flew down to the crows in the jungle-gully.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I followed after their clamour, and in the midst<br>Of all the splendid excitement of the birds<br>I heard one feller was singing above them all.<br>It was the lyre-bird, the mimic of all the scrub,<br>And they held this beautiful sermon or half an hour.<br>The birds would stop and listen a while but still<br>That beautiful voice, the lyre-bird, would keep on singing<br>And draw then and join them all to a chorus again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as I stood there and listened, the Scriptures was<br>Hitting me all the time. The sermon seemed<br>Like the prophecy when Christ shall come and summon<br>The birds, the valleys, the hills, the mountains and the ocean<br>To sing in praise of the grace and the reckoning day,<br>And the beauty of earth in the splendour that He crated.<br>And I went back and told my people of what I had seen,<br>And the sermon of praise I heard in the mountain range.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Roland+Robinson">Roland Robinson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509460" data-title="The Sermon of the Birds de Roland Robinson" data-description="I was clearing thirty or forty acres once Out in the western range near Nightcap Mountain. And as I was working, I heard a gathering of the crows Singing out in a jungle gully. Their clamorous cries Drawed the attention of all the other birds. Jac..."></div> </div> </div>

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