Tree with a Bird in it

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page65" name="page65"></SPAN>[65]</span></p> <div><SPAN name="h2H_4_0035" id="h2H_4_0035"></SPAN></div> <h2> <i>Bliss Carman</i> </h2> <p class="quote"> (Who, incidentally, happened to be correct.)</p> <h3> THE WILD </h3> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> Ho, Spring calls clear a message.... </p> <p class="i4"> The Grackle is not green.... </p> <p class="i2"> The Mighty Mother Nature </p> <p class="i4"> She knows just what I mean. </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> The lilac and the willow </p> <p class="i4"> The grass and violet </p> <p class="i2"> They are my wild companions </p> <p class="i4"> Where I was raised a pet. </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> The secrets of great nature </p> <p class="i4"> From childhood I have heard; </p> <p class="i2"> Oh, I can tell a wild flower </p> <p class="i4"> Swiftly from a wild bird; </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> And Gwendolen and Marna </p> <p class="i4"> And Myrtle (dead all three ... </p> <p class="i2"> Among my wildwood sweethearts </p> <p class="i4"> Was much mortality). </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page66" name="page66"></SPAN>[66]</span> If they my loves returning </p> <p class="i4"> Might gather 'neath these boughs </p> <p class="i2"> (Oh, they would sniff at pear-trees </p> <p class="i4"> Who loved the Northern Sloughs). </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> Their wild eternal whisper </p> <p class="i4"> Would back me up, I ween: </p> <p class="i2"> "This bird is not a Grackle: </p> <p class="i4"> A Grackle is not green." </p> </div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />