Tree with a Bird in it

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page7" name="page7"></SPAN>[7]</span></p> <div><SPAN name="h2H_4_0007" id="h2H_4_0007"></SPAN></div> <h2> <i>Witter Bynner</i> </h2> <p class="quote"> (Prefaced by a short baritone talk on Chinese architecture.)</p> <h3> THE UNITY OF ONENESS </h3> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> Celia, have you been to China? </p> <p class="i4"> There upon a mystic tree </p> <p class="i2"> Sits a bird who murmurs Chinese </p> <p class="i4"> Of the Me in Thee. </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> 'Neath that tree of willow-pattern </p> <p class="i4"> Twice seven thousand scornful go </p> <p class="i2"> Paraphrasers and translators </p> <p class="i4"> Of the long-deceased Li-Po: </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> Chinese feelings swift discerning </p> <p class="i4"> Without all this time and fuss </p> <p class="i2"> Let us eat that bird, thus learning </p> <p class="i4"> Of the Him in Us! </p> </div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />