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Interestingly, there are several instances where references to birds and to song are intermingled, e.g. [[Page 449]] where "... at this passing moment by localoption in the '''birds'''' lodging, me '''pheasants''' among, where I'll dreamt that I'll dwealth mid '''warblers'''' walls when '''throstles''' and '''choughs''' to my sigh hiehied,..." is a mutilation of the title of a song from the opera ''The Bohemian Girl'' by Michael Balfe and Alfred Bunn, "I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls." Also on [[Page 264]] in which the lines "... I wound around my '''swanchen's''' neckplace a school of shells of '''moyles''' marine to swing their saysangs in her '''silents'''..." evoke the song [[Silent, O Moyle]] by Thomas Moore.