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BIRDS AND FLOWERS. 



"Set me in the urge and tide-drift 

 Of the streaming hosts a-wing! 

 Breasts of scarlet, throats of yellow, 

 Raucous challenge, wooings mellow — 

 Every migrant is my fellow, 

 Making northward with the spring. 

 Loose me in the urge and tide-drift 

 Of the streaming hosts a-wing!" 



May 16, 1902. 



