Tree with a Bird in it

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page17" name="page17"></SPAN>[17]</span></p> <div><SPAN name="h2H_4_0013" id="h2H_4_0013"></SPAN></div> <h2> <i>Edith M. Thomas</i> </h2> <p class="quote"> (She tells a friend in confidence, after she is safely out of it all.)</p> <h3> FROST AND SANDBURG TONIGHT </h3> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> Apple green bird on a wooden bough, </p> <p class="i2"> And the brazen sound of a long, loud row, </p> <p class="i2"> And "Child, take the train, but mind what you do&mdash; </p> <p class="i2"> Frost, tonight, and Sandburg too!" </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> Then I sally forth, half wild, half cowed, </p> <p class="i2"> Till I come to the surging, impervious crowd, </p> <p class="i2"> The wine-filled, the temperance, the sober, the pied, </p> <p class="i2"> The Poets that cover the countryside! </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> The Poets I never would meet till tonight! </p> <p class="i2"> A gleam of their eyes in the fading light, </p> <p class="i2"> And I took them all in&mdash;the enormous throng&mdash; </p> <p class="i2"> And with one great bound I bolted along. </p> </div> <hr /> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> If the garden had merely held birds and flowers! </p> <p class="i2"> But I hear a voice&mdash;they have talked for hours&mdash; </p> <p class="i2"> "Frost tonight&mdash;" if 'twere merely he! </p> <p class="i2"> Half wild, half cowed, I flee, I flee! </p> </div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />