BIRDS MD NATURE. 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



NIGHT 



Mysterious Night, when our first parent knew 



Thee from report divine, and heard they name, 



Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, 



This glorious canopy of light and blue ; 



Yet *neath a curtain of translucent hue. 



Bathed in rays of the great setting flame 



Hesperus with the host of heaven came. 



And lo ! creation widened in man's view. 



Who would have thought such darkness lay concealed. 



Within thy beams, O Sun ! or who could find, 



Whilst flower and leaf and insect stood revealed. 



That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? 



Why do we then shun death with anxious strife — 



If light can thus deceive us, wherefore not life ? 



— ^Joseph Blanco White. 

 (1775-1841.) 



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