A Swallow,conversing with a Nightingale，advised her to quit the leafy covens where she made her home，and to come and live with men，like herself,and nest under the shelter of their the Nightingale replied，“Time was when I too，like yourself,lived among men：but the memory of the cruel wrongs I then suffered makes them hateful to me，and never again will I approach their dwellings.”
The scene of past sufferings revives painful memories.
