France, 1892
Edward Harrison Barker, Two Summers in Guyenne: A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside, 1894, Chapter: In the Viscounty of Turenne.
It was April, and from near and afar came the warbling of nightingales. They moved amongst the new leaves of almost every shrub and tree.
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The next morning I was on the road to Martel, with nightingales and blackcaps singing all around from blossoming quince and hawthorn and copses filled with a gold-green glimmer, until I reached the bare upland country.
