THE SIERRA HERMIT THRUSH. 239 
Taken in Rainier National Park. From a Photograph Copyright, 1908, by W. L. Dawson. 
FOOT OF NISQUALLY GLACIER FROM GOVERNMENT ROAD. 
A CHARACTERISTIC HAUNT OF THE SIERRA HERMIT THRUSH. 
not want your bird-book.”’ Quite right, Madame, it would have been a waste 
of money—for you. But I have heard the Hermit Thrush. 
“Ah, did you once see Shelley, 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 you are living after; 
And the memory I started at— 
My starting moves your laughter! 
“T 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: 
