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Not a hare to ring the bells on the whole hillside ? 
Could she make the harebells ring, if my darling tried ? 
Harebells, harebells, a little child blue-gowned 
Stands and listens longingly ; little hands embrowned 
Touch you ; rose mouth kisses you ; ring out! 
Isa little child a thing any flower should flout ? 
Child’s hand on poet’s heart makes it bloom in song : 
Let her hear your fairy chimes, delicate ding-dong. 
Let her hear what poet’s voice never caught nor sung; 
Let a child ring the bells little hares have rung. 
Soft she whispers to the flowers, bending o’er them there, 
'■‘Let me ring your honny hells ! I’m a little hare! 
No, I’m only a little child, but I love you so I 
Let me ring your little bells, just to say you know.” 
Harebells, blue bells, ring, ring again ! 
Set a-going, little child, the joyaunce of the strain. 
O the look upon her face, for the music heard! 
Is it wind in fairy soughs ? Is it far-off bird ? 
Does the child hear melody grown folk cannot hear ? 
Is the harebells’ music now chiming in her ear ? 
Father, give this little child, as she goeth on. 
Evermore to keep the gift by this music won ; 
Gift which makes this earth of ours very Paradise 
For delight of opened ears, joy of opened eyes. 
Harebells, joybells, lovebells, dear and blest. 
Ring in the sacredness of her happy breast. 
E. H. Hickey. 
A NEW BIOLOGICAL STATION. 
ATURDAY, June 4th, was a red-letter day in the 
annals of the Liverpool Marine Biological Committee, 
formal opening of their new 
Biological Station at Port Erin, at the south end of the 
Isle of Man. Five years ago the Committee established a small 
biological laboratory on the shores of Puffin Island, Anglesea, 
of which I gave a short account in the pages of Nature Notes 
(vol. i., p. 95), on the occasion of a Whitsuntide excursion to 
Puffin Island in 1890. Since the foundation of the station, two 
bulky volumes of researches made on the flora and fauna of the 
neighbouring seas have been published under the able editorship 
of Professor W. A. Herdman, F.R.S. ; and the Biology Com- 
mittee, of which Dr. Herdman is chairman, believed that the 
time had arrived for the transference of the centre of w’ork from 
Anglesea to some other more easily accessible part of the dis- 
trict, where a fresh area might be investigated. After a careful 
