THE DARTFORD WARBLER 263 



That a law on the lines suggested will be 

 made sooner or later is my belief: that it may 

 come soon is my hope and prayer, lest we have 

 to say of the Dartford warbler, and of twenty 

 other species named in this chapter, as we have 

 had to say of so m^any others that have gone. 



The beautiful is vanished and returns not. 



