The birds sang delightfully; the sparkles in the fern, the grass, and trees, were exquisite to see; the richness of the woods seemed to have increased twenty-fold since yesterday, as if, in the still night when they had looked so massively hushed in sleep, Nature, through all the minute details of every wonderful leaf, had been more wakeful than usual for the glory of that day.

The birds sang delightfully; the richness of the woods seemed to have increased twenty-fold since yesterday, as if in the still night Nature had been more wakeful than usual for the glory of that day.
