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and let them live with us. We are only begin- 

 ning to realize our deep dependence upon our 

 wild neighbors, and the birds especially. As this 

 knowledge grows, and as our love for wild life 

 grows, we shall draw closer and closer together, 

 we shall share and share alike, birds and beasts 

 and men, all the things we have. We shall even 

 learn to make all of our aigrettes — of horsehair! 

 Then in that day (if he can find him a dwelling- 

 place until that day come) even the raven, the 

 wild black prince of birds, shall build his nest 

 without fear of the trains that thunder through 

 the canon far below him, and without harm from 

 the shepherds whose flocks feed in the sage back 

 on the wide plains above. 



