BIRDS AND NATURE. 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



Vol. X. SEPTEMBER, 1901. No. 2 



TO A HUMMINGBIRD. 



Voyager on golden air, 



Type of all that's fleet and fair, 



Incarnate gem, 



Live diadem 



Bird-beam of the summer day, — 



Whither on your sunny way? 



Loveliest of all lovely things, 

 Roses open to your wings; 

 Each gentle breast 

 Would give you rest; 

 Stay, forget lost Paradise, 

 Star-bird fallen from happy skies. 



Vanished ! Earth is not his home; 

 Onward, onward must he roam 

 Swift passion-thought, 

 In rapture wrought, 

 Issue of the soul's desire, 

 Plumed with beauty and with fire. 



— John Vance Cheney. 



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