THE SIERRA HERMIT THRUSH. 



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7\iLcii in Raititci Xaltoiiui I'iuk. From a Fltotogruf'h Coj^yrigltt, 1908, by II'. L- Diiicsoti. 



FOOT OF XISQUALLY GLACIER FROM GOVERNMENT ROAD. 



A CHAR.\CTER1STIC HAUNT OF THE SIERRA HERMIT THRUSH. 



not want }-iiur bird-liook." Quite right, Madame, it would have been a waste 

 of money — for you. But I have lieard the Hermit Thrush. 



"Ah, did you once see Slielley, plain. 

 And did he stop and speak to you, 

 And did you speak to him again ? 

 How strange it seems, and new ! 



"But you were living before that, 

 And also }'0u are living after; 

 And the memory I started at — 

 My starting moves your laughter! 



"I crossed a moor with a name of its own. 

 And a certain use in the world, no doubt, 

 Yet a hand's breadth of it shines alone 

 'Mid the blank miles around about : 



