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<h1>BIRDS AND NATURE.</h1>
<h2><span class="sc">Vol. X.</span></h2>
<h3>SEPTEMBER, 1901.</h3>
<h2 id="c1">TO A HUMMINGBIRD.</h2>
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<p class="t0">Voyager on golden air,</p>
<p class="t0">Type of all that’s fleet and fair,</p>
<p class="t0">Incarnate gem,</p>
<p class="t0">Live diadem</p>
<p class="t0">Bird-beam of the summer day,—</p>
<p class="t0">Whither on your sunny way?</p>
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<p class="t0">Loveliest of all lovely things,</p>
<p class="t0">Roses open to your wings;</p>
<p class="t0">Each gentle breast</p>
<p class="t0">Would give you rest;</p>
<p class="t0">Stay, forget lost Paradise,</p>
<p class="t0">Star-bird fallen from happy skies.</p>
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<p class="t0">Vanished! Earth is not his home;</p>
<p class="t0">Onward, onward must he roam</p>
<p class="t0">Swift passion-thought,</p>
<p class="t0">In rapture wrought,</p>
<p class="t0">Issue of the soul’s desire,</p>
<p class="t0">Plumed with beauty and with fire.</p>
<p class="lr">—John Vance Cheney.</p>
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