. Birds and nature . f nameless graves. Since goaded long by lashing winds, He rushes forth in ire,And welds as one the ships of Clyde With those of crumbled Tyre;And swallows down the king and clown With equal appetite,And hides them all, both great and small, In his wide tombs of night. Then screaming I above him fly And hasten where he roars,Within my breast the same unrest As his proud bosom thousand leagues I go ^yith him And glory in his power,A thousand leagues I herald him Through many a sleepless hour. Then, calmer grown, we dream again, And in some distant zoneA little season
. Birds and nature . f nameless graves. Since goaded long by lashing winds, He rushes forth in ire,And welds as one the ships of Clyde With those of crumbled Tyre;And swallows down the king and clown With equal appetite,And hides them all, both great and small, In his wide tombs of night. Then screaming I above him fly And hasten where he roars,Within my breast the same unrest As his proud bosom thousand leagues I go ^yith him And glory in his power,A thousand leagues I herald him Through many a sleepless hour. Then, calmer grown, we dream again, And in some distant zoneA little season are as one. Untroubled and I am brother to the sea And where he goes go I,And when at last my days are past. Within his breast I lie. And I shall ever haunt his paths About this aging he to me, and I to him, Shall sing of woe and mirthUntil gray Time shall be no more, And every wave that weepsHas learned to laugh and laughing, thrills The bosom of the deeps. —C. G. B. in The Chicago Record. 188. THE SPIDER MONKEY. {Ateles hypoxanthus.) With his native guides a gentlemanwas traveling, one day through one of thewonderfully luxuriant tropical forests ofeastern Brazil. They had left the Ama-zon river and had come southeast to theprovince of Maranhao, where the roots,grasses and plants sometimes weavethemselves into vegetable bridges so solidthat a man may go some distance with-out discovering that he has left the firmearth. They had just passed over one of thesenatural bridges and had evidently reachedthe edge of the hidden pool, as they cameto a dense growth of rosewood trees, andthere they saw a most vmique and pecu-liar sight. The gentleman, being astranger in Brazil, exclaimed with as-tonishment, for hanging from thebranches by their tails only, were a wholetroop of monkeys. They were of slender build, with long,thin, sprawling limbs and small heads,and they were indeed a most laughableand comical sight. As soon as the gentleman recoveredfrom his surprise
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