Every south wind purring through the boughs will winnow away a shower of slender petals.
"Sparrows and silly little birds are of no use in thatplace -- there one finds much gold, velvet, silk, armour, harnesses, sparrow-hawks,screech-owls and hen-harriers; keep to the horses' stable where they winnow oats,or thresh, and then fortune may give thee thy daily grain of corn in peace.