Merlin

Merlin was a wizard.

The Lady of the Lake bewitched Merlin and trapped him in the trunk of a tree.

The day gets even more exciting when a rarely-seen merlin and another bird chase each other. Smith takes a photo of the small falcon using his telescope and a camera phone. The merlin, one of the world’s fastest birds, is a rare sight at Huntley Meadows.

The gentle falcon, that with its feet distraineth / The kingës hand; the hardy sperhawke eke, / The quailës foe; the merlion that paineth / Himself full oft the larkë for to seek; [...]

Smaller and less powerful falcons included the merlon, the hobby, and the kesterel.

I NEXT paſſed into the choir; a ſcene of transformation indeed! I had been accuſtomed to contemplate here a far different order of things. Our profeſſional Merlins have waved their wands to ſome purpoſe; and all view, as their familiars invited me to believe, was to be given up to the momentary glance at an Eidophuſicon ſhew of the Reſurrection filling the Eaſt window in that ſpot late our Lady’s chapel, now the termination of the choir.

It is a game of chemistry and confidence, where players of gold often make teams of lead, and vice versa. Coaches are like Merlins madly mixing metals, searching for “the right combination,” even if it contradicts common sense.

Music, art, entertainment, medicine, and science are being changed before our very eyes by technological Merlins waving silicon wands.