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schools, and teachers are urged to combine a summer's change with outdoor 

 nature- work in some school of the grade of that conducted at Cold Spring Har- 

 bor, Cornell University, the University of Illinois, and University of Michigan. 

 A complete catalogue of our best summer schools would be very useful to the 

 readers of Bird-Lore, and information concerning any of them will be gladly 

 received. — A. H. W. 



JUNIOR AUDUBON WORK 



For Teachers and Pupils 



Exercise XX: Correlated with Reading and English Literature 



SUGGESTIONS FOR BIRD AND ARBOR DAY 



In the March-April issue of Bird-Lore for 1911 (see Vol. XIII, No. 2), 

 a special programme for Bird and Arbor Day was given, to which some teachers 

 may be glad to refer. Suggestions were also given there as to planting school 

 gardens and shrubs attractive to birds, suiting the conditions of rural and city 

 schools. 



Since not every teacher has the time or opportunity to arrange elaborate 

 exercises for Bird and Arbor Day, a simpler exercise is given here, which it is 

 hoped may serve the double purpose of acquainting pupils with some untried 

 paths of English, and opening the way to a fuller enjoyment of Nature through 

 the eyes of the poet. 



HYMN OF NATURE 

 (To be recited by seven pupils, a stanza, by each) 



God of the earth's extended plains! 



The dark green fields contented lie; 

 The mountains rise like holj^ towers, 



Where man might commune with the sky; 

 The tall cliff challenges the storm 



That lowers upon the vale below, 

 Where shaded fountains send their streams, 



With joyous music in their glow. 



God of the dark and heavy deep! 



The waves lie sleeping on the sands. 

 Till the fierce trumpet of the storm 



Hath summoned up their thundering bands; 

 Then the white sails are dashed like foam, 



Or, hurry, trembling, o'er the seas, 

 Till, calmed by thee, the sinking gale 



Serenely breathes, "Depart in peace." 



