To show how the skill of the birds began

At the point where human skill fell short;

For they used what was waste in the hands of man.


[THE PRAIRIE NEST]

Where, think you, a little gray finch in the far wide West

Chose (of all places!) to build and to brood her nest?

Well, I will tell you the tale that the hunter told:

(Strange things has he seen—this hunter grizzled and old.)