Tree with a Bird in it

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page9" name="page9"></SPAN>[9]</span></p> <div><SPAN name="h2H_4_0009" id="h2H_4_0009"></SPAN></div> <h2> <i>Edgar Lee Masters</i> </h2> <p class="quote"> (Making a statement which you may take or leave, but convincing you entirely.)</p> <h3> IMRI SWAZEY </h3> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> I was a shock-headed boy bringing in the laundry; </p> <p class="i2"> Why did I try for that damn bird, anyway? </p> <p class="i2"> I suppose I had been in the habit of aiming for the pears. </p> <p class="i2"> But I chucked a stone, anyhow, </p> <p class="i2"> And it ricocheted and hit my head, </p> <p class="i2"> And as it hadn't any brains inside the stone busted it </p> <p class="i2"> And there I was, dead. </p> <p class="i2"> And dead with me were all the improper things </p> <p class="i2"> I'd got out of the servants about their employers </p> <p class="i2"> Bringing in the laundry; </p> <p class="i2"> But the grackle sings on. </p> <p class="i2"> Sing forever, O grackle! </p> <p class="i2"> I died, knowing lots of things <i>you</i> don't know! </p> </div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />