. Bird lore . NIGHTHAWKS TWO DAYS OLD About natural size young Sandpipers, but they did not try to fly and did not make a time they did not get home so early as before, but their father waswaiting when they did come. After that I could not find them again,although the anxiety of the old birds showed plainly that if they were nolonger housekeeping, they were camping out in the immediate NIGHTHAWK TWO WEEKS OLDAbout one-half natural size The Veerys Note BY ERNEST CROSBY When dear old Pan for good and all Was driven from the woods he cherished,How much he took beyond recall
. Bird lore . NIGHTHAWKS TWO DAYS OLD About natural size young Sandpipers, but they did not try to fly and did not make a time they did not get home so early as before, but their father waswaiting when they did come. After that I could not find them again,although the anxiety of the old birds showed plainly that if they were nolonger housekeeping, they were camping out in the immediate NIGHTHAWK TWO WEEKS OLDAbout one-half natural size The Veerys Note BY ERNEST CROSBY When dear old Pan for good and all Was driven from the woods he cherished,How much he took beyond recall ! How many mysteries paled and perished !The satyrs capered in his train, While dryads trod a solemn measure,Casting a backward glance in vain On every haunt they used to treasure. And having thus from glade and glen Drawn by his pipe each sylvan wonder,Pan, ere he vanished, turned again, And broke his pipe of reeds broke his pipe and cast away In heedless wrath and grief behind himThe notes that he alone could play,— Then fled where we shall never find him. The breezes tossed the notes about And dropped them in ravines and hollows. Many were lost beyond a doubt In nooks where echo never follows. But here and there a silent bird, Dejected with a nameless yearning, Picked up a trembling note unheard That set his heart and throat a-burning. The Nightingale, they say, found one Beneath a m
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