260 What Birds Have Done With Me 



woman in the world, but he did not know it. He 

 was always looking for comradeship and she was 

 the only person who could share fully every 

 thought and feeling that had ever swept his be- 

 ing; his parched lips had been seeking gladness 

 and though he knew it not, her heart was its over- 

 flowing fountain. Many a "Sir Galahad" has 

 ridden across the world in search of the Holy 

 Grail, returning old and blind to find it at his own 

 door. 



"The poor you have ever with you," do not 

 pass them by for there is a divinity in common 

 things, and to be really acquainted with simple 

 forms of life is more than to dwell in marble halls. 

 Though far from the madding crowd, having 

 found one bird: "a fellow of infinite jest and 

 most excellent fancy," let us be content. 



