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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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r fairest forms. Men drag us from our fragrant winding vales, They fell us on the mountain slopes, and bareThe prairies unto heat, and freezing gales, And thinned, the chaparral plains fail unaware. They tear us from the wall-chinks of the glens, And hew us on the marsh we helped to drain,And where our beauty graced, the tawny fens Shall lapse to weeds and sworded flags again. Up coastings, line the lisping, creeping sands, While inland move the dunes we bravely stayed,When we are borne away by wasteful hands, To tower in rooms, with lights and gifts arrayed. Spare us!—oh! spare our youth, with verdure crowned— Our groves return to deserts when we pass;The coasts which we revived, in sands are drowned; Bare slopes but yield their stones and bitter-grass. Spare us! we bring you beauty, shelter, wealth,Oh! waste us not. Oh! keep with guiltless show The Holy Time; and life, and joy, and health,Be gifts to you, while winds of Winter blow. —Eliza Wcodworth. 198 ONIVERSITV Of ILLINOIS
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THE RIVOLI HUMMINGBIRD. (Eugenes fulgens.) In that wonderful and magnificent bookA Monograph of the Trochilidse, thefamily of hummingbirds, Mr. John Gould,the author, writing of his experienceswith these mites of bird life, says: How vivid is my recollection of thefirst hummingbird which met my admir-ing gaze! With what delight did f ex-amine its tiny body and feast my eyes onits glittering plumage! These early im-pressions, I well remember, graduallyincreased into an earnest desire to attaina more intimate acquaintance with thelovely group of birds to which it per-tained. During the first twenty yearsof my acquaintance with these wonder-ful works of creation my thoughts wereoften directed to them in the day, andmy dreams have not unfrequently car-ried me to their native forests in the dis-tant country of i\merica. These birds have ever been an inspira-tion to the poet. How beautiful arethese lines of Maurice Thompson, ad-dressed to the hummingbird: Zephyr loves thy wingsAbove all lov

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