JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



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THE MYTH OF THE BLUEBIRD. 



Once when Time was young, in rapturous 



flight, 

 A brownish bird soared in radiant light. 

 Lost in jubilant trills he flew so high 

 He brushed the dome of the deep blue sky, 

 Till his feathers glowed as the azure dome 

 Ere he winged again to his earthly home. 

 In his flashings downward, toward sunset 



west. 

 The flaming rays tinted a ruddy breast. 

 In extatics he flew to nesting tree, 

 Homeing thoughts of love-ones, birdlings 



three, 

 In tenderness he greeted joyous mate, 

 In true-love warblings he did relate 

 Of celestial flight, of his coat of blue. 

 Trilling "Vou shall wear sky colors too."' 



But her day was not as radiant fair 

 Wandering storm clouds drifted high in air 

 Subduing the rapture of throbbing throat, — 

 An unwonted pathos of minor note, 

 As singing she flew in ethereal flight 

 Soaring through vapors into azure light. 

 But in winging downward through clouds of 



gray 

 The rain mists washed some bright blue away. 

 Tremble'y-wet, she pressed to mates ruddy 



breast 

 Till warm tints spread to her rain-splaslied 



vest. 

 That is the reason of her duller hue 

 While mate is exuberant in brilliant blue. 

 O, never again will songbird soar as high, 

 O, never again through glorious sky. 



South Lyme, Conn. 



ALICE B. WATTE. 



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