LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
BARN SWALLOW (colored)
From a drawing by L. A. Fuertes
EMERSON'S HOUSE IN CONCORD
From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason
A RIVER VIEW IN APRIL
From a drawing by Charles H. Woodbury
FLICKER
From a drawing by L. A. Fuertes Cows
IN RURAL LANDSCAPE
From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason
VIEW FROM A HILLTOP
From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason




BIRDS AND POETS

I

BIRDS AND POETS

"In summer, when the shawes be shene,
And leaves be large and long,
It is full merry in fair forest
To hear the fowles' song.
The wood-wele sang, and wolde not cease,
Sitting upon the spray;