TO THE PRESIDENT 

 OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION 



LORD LILFORD, F.Z.S. 



THIS RECORD IS INSCRIBED 

 AS AN EARNEST OF LOYAL REGARD 



Of gentle, strange, ttnlettered men, 

 Of Holy Hills, of frosty fen 



And ice and island foam ; 

 Of flowers and of antlered herds 

 And all the nesting of the birds 



He brings the story home. 



Not his the crystal to divine 



With those clear eyes the charmed page 

 Where Nature, in the inner shrine, 



Enrols her children's heritage. 



Yet, when your roses welcome June, 



This tale of far-off errantry 

 May serve to cheat a languid noon 



With breezes of the Northern Sea. 



