BIRDS' NESTS 271 



Conforming still, developing, 



Obedient to plan. 

 This but to form a pattern 



On the garment of a bird ! 

 What then must be the poem, 



This but its lightest word ! 

 Sit before it ; ponder o'er it, 



'Twill thy mind advantage more 

 Than a treatise, than a sermon, 



Than a library of lore. 



THE END. 



