YeUow Bird 



Where do you hide such a store of delight, 

 O delicate creature, tiny and slender, 

 Like a mellow morning sunbeam bright 

 And overflowing with music tender! 



You never learned it at all, the song 

 Springs from your heart in rich completeness, 

 Beautiful, blissful, clear and strong, 

 Steeped in the summer's ripest sweetness. 



To think we are neighbors of yours ! How fine ! 

 Oh, what a pleasure to watch you together, 

 Bringing your fern-down and floss to reline 

 The nest worn thin by the winter weather! 



Send up your full notes like worshipful prayers; 

 Yellow bird, sing while the summer's before you; 

 Little you dream that, in spite of their cares 

 Here's a whole family, proud to adore you ! 



CELIA THAXTER. 



WARBLER, YELLOW PALM. YELLOW RED- 

 POLL 



' They are much more terrestrial in their habits than any 

 of their immediate relations, and always are on or not 

 very far from the ground. 



MINOT. Land and Game Birds. 20 



He has the same nervous peculiarity which, irrespective 

 of family, seems to affect some birds, and, as though life 

 were a matter of beating time, never ceases to wag his 



tail 



CHAPMAN. Handbook of Birds. 21 



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