The song had stopped as suddenly as it began -- broken off , you would have said , in the middle of a note , as though someone had laid his hand upon the singer 's mouth . Coming through through the the clear clear , , sunny sunny atmosphere atmosphere among among the the green green tree-tops tree-tops , , I I thought thought it it had had sounded sounded airily airily and and sweetly sweetly ; ; and and the the effect effect on on my my companions companions was was the the stranger stranger . .
Песня оборвалась так же внезапно, как и началась, — оборвалась, можно сказать, на середине ноты, как будто кто-то положил руку на рот певца. Проходя сквозь ясную, солнечную атмосферу среди зеленых верхушек деревьев, я подумал, что это прозвучало воздушно и сладко; и эффект на моих спутников был странным.