Who Nature loves by Nature is beloved.
She makes him gentle, and she keeps him fair;
By woods and waters where her treasures are
Within his hand she lays a hand ungloved.
For him no stream is stopped, no mountain moved,
No bird-song hushed, nor any branch made bare;
Useless the archer’s shaft, the fowler’s snare;
Nor for his feet is any pathway grooved.
So Gibson lived and wrote, and drew and dreamed,
Whose sun too early dropped adown the west,
Whose every day with purest visions teemed,
That gave another’s day a fresher zest;
And like dear Nature’s self he often seemed
To draw no lines twixt labor, play and rest.
Rossiter Johnson.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF THE WRITINGS OF
WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON
“The Complete American Trapper.” New York. James Miller, 1876. Republished in 1878 by Bradley & Co. Republished in 1880 by Harper and Brothers, under the title, “Camp Life in the Woods, and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap-Making.”
“Pastoral Days; or, Memories of a New England Year.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1880.
“Highways and Byways; or, Saunterings in New England.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1882.
“Happy Hunting Grounds: A Tribute to the Woods and Fields.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1886.
“Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1890.
“Sharp Eyes: A Rambler’s Calendar of Fifty-two Weeks among Insects, Birds and Flowers.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1891.