The Loneliness Bird

Trail Wood #46 Earl Plato

Writer’s note: Edwin Teale from his Trail Wood cottage-” The Loneliness Bird”
“ A friend of mine, George Peters, a climber of mountains years ago as a young man worked one summer in a lumber camp in the Adirondacks.”
Writer’s note: I have ascended mile high plus Mount Marcy, Blue Mountain and others. I can appreciate George Peters setting in that mountain range.
"All through the woods from morning until night, beginning in the light of early dawn and continuing into the crepuscular light of evening, the song of some small bird he never identified and never saw clearly went on and on. He used to lie in his bunk when he awoke in the gray light of dawn and listen to the moving strains that wove themselves into all his memories of that time. The singer seemed to represent the voice of the solitary wilderness. He called the unknown vocalist then and always remembered it afterward as “The Loneliness Bird.” It was not until years after he discovered that the disembodied voice that had filled those days belonged to the little white-throated sparrow. How fine it is, in dawns like this, to begin our Trail Wood day with this pure, deeply moving song of The Loneliness Bird.