Like the lone Albatross: The Albatross is said to sleep on the wing.
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The murmur that springs: I met with this idea in an old English tale, which I am now unable to obtain and quote from memory: — "The verie essence and, as it were, springe-heade, and origine of all musiche is the verie pleasaunte sounde which the trees of the forest do make when they growe."