BIRDS AND NATURE. | ||
| ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. | ||
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| Vol. IX. | APRIL, 1901. | No. 4 |
CONTENTS.
- APRIL. 145
- I come, like a hope to a gloomy breast 145
- THE CURASSOW. 146
- SOME NOTABLE NESTS. 149
- THE BLACKBIRD’S SONG. 151
- A GOLDEN EAGLE. 152
- THE HARLEQUIN DUCK. (Histrionicus histrionicus.) 155
- AN ORCHARD BIRD-WAY. 156
- THE CANADA GROUSE. (Dendragapus canadensis.) 158
- DO PLANTS HAVE INSTINCT. 162
- Still winter holds the frozen ground and fast the streams with ice are bound 164
- THE DOVEKIE. (Alle alle.) 167
- As flying ever westward Night’s shadows swiftly glide 167
- THE SONG SPARROW’S APPEAL. 168
- THE WITCH IN THE CREAM. A TRUE STORY. 169
- THE BEAVER. 170
- PAU-PUK-KEEWIS AND THE BEAVERS. 174
- What rosy pearls, bright zoned or striped! 175
- SNAILS OF THE OCEAN. 176
- THE LEMON. 182
- TWO WRENS. 185
- WHEN SPRING COMES. 188
- CUBEBS. (Piper cubeba L.) 191
- A TREE-TOP TOWN. 192
APRIL.
No days such honored days as these! While yet
Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide
For some fair thing which should forever bide
On earth, her beauteous memory to set
In fitting frame that no age could forget,
Her name in lovely April’s name did hide,
And leave it there, eternally allied
To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.
And when fair Aphrodite passed from earth,
Her shrines forgotten and her feasts of mirth,
A holier symbol still in seal and sign,
Sweet April took, of kingdom most divine,
When Christ ascended, in the time of birth
Of spring anemones, in Palestine.
—Helen Hunt Jackson.
I come, like a hope to a gloomy breast,
With comforting smiles, and tears
Of sympathy for the earth’s unrest;
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