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		<title>Addison, Joseph -- Essay (1712-09-06), The Spectator, No. 477</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.</p>
<br><b>Joseph Addison</b> (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman<br>Essay (1712-09-06), <i>The Spectator</i>, No. 477 
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		<title>Virgil -- Georgics [Georgica], Book 3, l. 242ff (3.242-244) (29 BC) [tr. Dryden (1709), l. 375ff]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thus every Creature, and of every Kind, The secret Joys of sweet Coition find: Not only Man&#8217;s Imperial Race; but they That wing the liquid Air; or swim the Sea, Or haunt the Desert, rush into the flame: For Love is Lord of all; and is in all the same. [Omne adeo genus in terris [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thus every Creature, and of every Kind,<br />
<span class="tab">The secret Joys of sweet Coition find:<br />
Not only Man&#8217;s Imperial Race; but they<br />
<span class="tab">That wing the liquid Air; or swim the Sea,<br />
Or haunt the Desert, rush into the flame:<br />
<span class="tab">For Love is Lord of all; and is in all the same.</p>
<p><em>[Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarumque,<br />
Et genus aequoreum, pecudes, pictaeque volucres,<br />
In furias ignemque ruunt. Amor omnibus idem.]</em></span></span></span></p>
<br><b>Virgil</b> (70-19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]<br><i>Georgics [Georgica]</i>, Book 3, l. 242ff (3.242-244) (29 BC) [tr. Dryden (1709), l. 375ff] 
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(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0059%3Abook%3D3%3Acard%3D242#:~:text=Omne%20adeo%20genus%20in%20terris%20hominumque%20ferarumque%2C%0Aet%20genus%20aequoreum%2C%20pecudes%20pictaeque%20volucres%2C%0Ain%20furias.%20ignemque%20ruunt.%20Amor%20omnibus%20idem.">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>All men on earth, and beasts, both wilde and tame,<br>
<span class="tab">Sea-monsters, gaudy fowle, rush to this flame:<br>
The same love works in all; with love ingag'd.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A65106.0001.001/1:5.3?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=All%20men%20on,with%20love%20ingag%27d.">Ogilby</a> (1649)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Nor they alone: but beasts that haunt the woods,<br>
<span class="tab">The painted birds, the people of the floods, <br>
Cattle, and men, to frenzy and to flame<br>
<span class="tab">Start wild: Love's empire is in all the same.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Georgics_(Nevile)/Book_3#:~:text=Nor%20they%20alone,all%20the%20same.">Nevile</a> (1767), l. 289ff] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Thus all that wings the air and cleaves the flood, <br>
<span class="tab">Herds that or graze the plain or haunt the wood, <br>
Rush to like flames, when kindred passions move, <br>
<span class="tab">And man and brute obey the power of love.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/georgicsofvirgil00virg/page/74/mode/2up?q=%22Thus+all+that+wings%22">Sotheby</a> (1800)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Indeed every kind on earth, both of men and wild beasts, the fish, the cattle, and painted birds, rush into maddening fires; love is in all the same.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Works_of_Virgil/GuFCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Indeed%20every%20kind%22">Davidson</a> (1854)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>So then all kinds on earth of men and herds,<br>
<span class="tab">The ocean tribes, the beasts, the painted birds,<br>
Rush all alike to frenzy and to flame;<br>
<span class="tab">Love rules them all, and love is still the same.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Georgics_of_Virgil/q3MQAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22So%20then%20all%20kinds%22">Blackmore</a> (1871), l. 293ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Nay, every race on earth, whether of men or beasts, the watery tribes, the herds, the painted birds, rush headlong into this fiery phrenzy; love sways all alike.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Literal_Translation_of_the_Eclogues_an/ZghPAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Nay,%20every%20race%20on%20earth%22">Wilkins</a> (1873)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Nay, every race on earth of men, and beasts,<br>
And ocean-folk, and flocks, and painted birds,<br>
Rush to the raging fire: love sways them all.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0058%3Abook%3D3%3Acard%3D242#:~:text=Nay%2C%20every%20race%20on%20earth%20of%20men%2C%20and%20beasts%2C%0AAnd%20ocean%2Dfolk%2C%20and%20flocks%2C%20and%20painted%20birds%2C%0ARush%20to%20the%20raging%20fire%3A%20love%20sways%20them%20all.">Rhoades</a> (1881)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Thus all alike the slaves of love remain,<br>
<span class="tab">That haunt the woodland, or that graze the plain.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.18134/page/n117/mode/2up?q=%22TLofs+all+alike+the+slaves%22">King</a> (1882)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>In truth, every kind on the earth, both of men and wild beasts, the fish, the cattle, and plumaged birds, rush to the frenzy and the fire of love: in all there is the same love. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/bucolicsgeorgics0000aham/page/106/mode/2up?q=%22every+kind+on+the+earth%22">Bryce</a> (1897)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Yes all on earth, the race of man and beast, the tribes of the sea, cattle and coloured birds break into fury and fire; in all love is the same.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eclogues_and_Georgics_(Mackail_1910)/Georgics_3#:~:text=Yes%20all%20on%20earth%2C%20the%20race%20of%20man%20and%20beast%2C%20the%20tribes%20of%20the%20sea%2C%20cattle%20and%20coloured%20birds%20break%20into%20fury%20and%20fire%3B%20in%20all%20love%20is%20the%20same.">Mackail</a> (1899)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Yea, all -- all tribes of earth, all men, all cattle-herds,<br>
<span class="tab">Wild beasts of the forest, the brood of the sea, plume-painted birds,<br>
Into flames of passion rush' all hearts are in one net taken.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Georgics_of_Virgil_in_English_Verse/tYFgMng6wfMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22all%20tribes%20of%20earth%22">Way</a> (1912)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For all terrestrial kinds, or beast or man,<br>
All Ocean's brood and flocks of bright-hued birds<br>
Haste to the same fierce fire. One power of love<br>
Possesses all. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Georgics_and_Eclogues_of_Virgil/dxcRFAjbB_4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22terrestrial%20kinds%22">Williams</a> (1915)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Every single race on earth, man and beast, the tribes of the sea, cattle and birds brilliant of hue, rush into fires of passion: all feel the same Love.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.theoi.com/Text/VirgilGeorgics2.html#:~:text=Every%20single%20race%20on%20earth%2C%20man%20and%20beast%2C%20the%20tribes%20of%20the%20sea%2C%20cattle%20and%20birds%20brilliant%20of%20hue%2C%20rush%20into%20fires%20of%20passion%3A%20all%20feel%20the%20same%20Love.">Fairclough</a> (Loeb) (1916)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>All manner of life on earth -- men, fauna of land and sea, <br>
Cattle and coloured birds -- <br>
Run to this fiery madness: love is alike for all.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/georgicsofvirgil0000cday/page/50/mode/2up?q=%22all+manner+of+life%22">Day-Lewis</a> (1940)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Thus, every living creature, man and beast, <br>
The ocean’s tribes, the herds, the colorful birds, <br>
Rush toward the furious flames: love levels all.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/virgilsgeorgics0000unse/page/68/mode/2up?q=%22thus+every+living%22">Bovie</a> (1956)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Or, better, make it fire, the tongues of flame<br>
burning like waves in a sunset, while all of life,<br>
birds, fish, beasts of the fields, and men,<br>
maddened, leap like lemmings into the sea,<br>
that searing sea, that terrible tide of lust<br>
to be like -- to become --<br>
<span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">each, the fabulolus phoenix,<br>
and rise renewed.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/ecloguesgeorgics0000slav/page/100/mode/2up?q=%22make+it+fire%22">Slavitt</a> (1971)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Indeed all species in the world, of men, <br>
Wild beasts and fish, cattle and coloured birds <br>
Rush madly into the furnace: love is common <br>
To all.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/georgics00virg/page/106/mode/2up?q=%22indeed+all+species%22">Wilkinson</a> (1982)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Every species on earth, man and creature, and the species<br>
of the sea, and cattle and bright-feathered birds,<br>
rush about in fire and frenzy: love’s the same for all.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilGeorgicsIII.php#anchor_Toc534252743:~:text=Every%20species%20on,same%20for%20all.">Kline</a> (2001)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Every last species on earth, man and beast alike, <br>
the vast schools of the sea, the cattle and bright-colored birds <br>
fall helpless into passion’s fire: love is the same for all.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/virgilsgeorgicsn0000virg_i3n1/page/48/mode/2up?q=%22every+last+species%22">Lembke</a> (2004)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Indeed, all species on the earth, both man and beast,<br>
the kingdom undersea, cattle and painted birds<br>
into this hot lunacy rush: love strikes all the same.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/georgicspoemofla0000virg/page/92/mode/2up?q=%22hot+lunacy+rush%22">Johnson</a> (2009)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>All living creatures on earth, no matter whether<br>
It's human beings or other kinds -- fish, cattle,<br>
Beautiful birds -- they all rush into the fire:<br>
Love is the same for all.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Georgics_of_Virgil/HTbFCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22all%20living%20creatures%22">Ferry</a> (2015)]</blockquote><br>
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		<title>Krutch, Joseph Wood -- The Twelve Seasons, &#8220;June&#8221; (1949)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children can be taken occasionally to the country to see what the sun looks like as they are taken now to see a hill or a mountain. Probably many of them will not want to go anyway, for the country will be to them only what it was to the London club man: “A damp [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Children can be taken occasionally to the country to see what the sun looks like as they are taken now to see a hill or a mountain. Probably many of them will not want to go anyway, for the country will be to them only what it was to the London club man: “A damp sort of place where all sorts of birds fly about uncooked.”</p>
<br><b>Joseph Wood Krutch</b> (1893-1970) American educator, writer, critic, naturalist<br><i>The Twelve Seasons</i>, &#8220;June&#8221; (1949) 
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The comment at the end is sometimes misattributed to Oscar Wilde. Further discussion of this quotation here: <a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/09/27/country-bird/">The Country: A Damp Sort of Place Where All Sorts of Birds Fly About Uncooked – Quote Investigator</a>.						</span>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.</p>
<br><b>Joseph Addison</b> (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman<br>Essay (1712-09-06), <i>The Spectator</i>, No. 477 
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do birds sing in the morning? It&#8217;s the triumphant shout: &#8220;We got through another night!&#8221; Unsourced in this form.  In her 1969 autobiography she writes: I hear that waking before dawn, that sentinel cry; and in thicket and thorn up comes the music. I hear it in the pillow; it intoxicates me. Why do [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why do birds sing in the morning?  It&#8217;s the triumphant shout: &#8220;We got through another night!&#8221;</p>
<br><b>Enid Bagnold</b> (1889-1981) English writer<br>(Attributed) 
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Unsourced in this form.  In her <a href="https://archive.org/details/enidbagnoldsauto00bagn/page/n305/mode/2up?q=%22pillow+it+intoxicates%22">1969 autobiography</a> she writes: <br><br>

<blockquote>I hear that waking before dawn, that sentinel cry; and in thicket and thorn up comes the music. I hear it in the pillow; it intoxicates me. Why do they do it? I have never been taught about birds. Is it the triumph-shout -- "We have got through <em>another</em> night!" It may be.</blockquote>

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