Chapter I: Front Matter

SANCTUARY

A BIRD MASQUE

“_Herkneth these blisful briddes how they singe;
Ful is mine herte of revel and solas!_”
CHAUCER

ORNIS

(_Miss Eleanor Wilson_)
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SANCTUARY

_A Bird Masque_

BY
PERCY MACKAYE

_With a Prelude by_
ARVIA MACKAYE

_Illustrated with Photographs in Color and Monotone by_
ARNOLD GENTHE

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1913, 1914, by_
PERCY MACKAYE

_All rights reserved_

THE·PLIMPTON·PRESS
NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A

TO

ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES

‘WILD NATURE’S HUMAN SYMPATHIZER’
IN ADMIRATION OF HIS DAUNTLESS
SERVICE TO THE BIRDS

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NOTE
REGARDING PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC READING

_Requests for permission to perform or read publicly this Bird
Masque having been received from a great many quarters, the
following information is here given for those desiring such
permission:_

_The Masque is copyrighted in the United States and countries of the
Copyright Union, and all rights are reserved._

_The purpose of the Masque is to be of public use, so that all
adequate presentations of it are welcome. To this end the special
conditions of performance or public reading should in each case be
communicated direct to the author, in care of the publisher._

_No performances may be given without such direct communication, and
permission thus first obtained._

_As the publication of this text is designed to serve the definite
cause for which it was written, performances must be, in some
degree at least, for the benefit of Wild Bird Conservation._

_Music for the lyrics “The Hermit Thrush” and the three songs of
Quercus has been composed by Frederick S. Converse, and is
published by the H. W. Gray Company, 2 West 45th Street, New
York._

_A bird bath, specially designed for use in bird sanctuaries and
gardens, with plastic groupings of characters in the original cast
of this Masque, has been executed by Mrs. Louis Saint-Gaudens,
Cornish, New Hampshire, post office Windsor, Vermont._

_The four photographs in color, as well as those in black and white,
which illustrate this volume were taken by Dr. Arnold Genthe of
enactors in the Masque, as first performed by members of the
Cornish Colony and the Meriden Bird Club at Meriden, New
Hampshire, September 12, 1913._