and became at last aware of the astonishment of noises taking place all about him when he saw his mother 's eyes stay open as long , at least , as a blessed two seconds ... ( for alive as birds , as alive as the worlds contained within the talisman , there came to him the sounds of trombones and trumpets , the cries of saxophones ; the joined voices of frogs and turtles and gray doves singing , the people who know my magic have filled the land with smoke ; there came to him the voices of wolfs making wolfmusic at the moon .