BIRDS mv NftTURE. 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



MARCH, 1902. No. 3. 



EASTER CAROL. 



Hepatica, anemone, 



And bloodroot snowy white, 



With their pretty wildwood sisters, 



Are opening to the hght. 



Each blossom bears a message 

 That a Httle child may read, 

 Of the wondrous miracle of life 

 Hid in the buried seed. 



In the woods and fields and gardens 

 We may find the blessed words 

 Writ in beauty, and may hear them, 

 Set in music by the birds. 



It is Nature's Easter carol, 

 And we, too, with gladness sing. 

 For we see the Life immortal 

 In the promise of the spring. 



— Anna M. Pratt, 



From ''Among Flowers and Trees with the Poets. 



SPRING. 



O beautiful world of green ! 



When bluebirds carol clear, 

 And rills outleap, 

 And new buds peep, 

 And the soft sky seems more near ; 

 With billowy green and leaves, — what then ? 

 How soon we greet the red again ! 



G. Cooper, " Round the Year.' 

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