Tree with a Bird in it

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page46" name="page46"></SPAN>[46]</span></p> <div><SPAN name="h2H_4_0026" id="h2H_4_0026"></SPAN></div> <h2> <i>Edna St. Vincent Millay</i> </h2> <p class="quote"> (Recites in a flippant voice which occasionally chokes up with irrepressible emotion, and clenching her hands tensely as she notices that the Grackle has hopped twice.)</p> <h3> TEA O' HERBS </h3> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> O I have brought in now </p> <p class="i4"> Bergamot, </p> <p class="i2"> A packet o' brown senna </p> <p class="i4"> And an iron pot; </p> <p class="i2"> In my scarlet gown </p> <p class="i4"> I make all hot. </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> And other men and girls </p> <p class="i4"> Write like me </p> <p class="i2"> Setting herbs a-plenty </p> <p class="i4"> In their poetry </p> <p class="i2"> (<i>Bergamot for hair-oil,</i> </p> <p class="i4"> <i>Bergamot for tea!</i>) </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> And they may do ill now </p> <p class="i2"> Or they may do well, </p> <p class="i2"> (Little should I care now </p> <p class="i2"> What they have to sell&mdash;) </p> <!--following two lines moved up from page 49--> <p class="i2"> But what bergamot and rue are </p> <p class="i4"> None of them can tell. </p> </div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page47" name="page47"></SPAN>[47]</span></p> <div style="height: 2em;"><br/><br/></div> <div class="figure"> <SPAN name="image-0010"></SPAN> <SPAN href="images/i008.jpg"><ANTIMG src="images/i008.png" width-obs="350" height-obs="500" title="Caricature of Edna St. Vincent Millay" alt="(caricature of Edna St. Vincent Millay)" /></SPAN></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page48" name="page48"></SPAN>[48]</span></p> <div style="height: 2em;"><br/><br/></div> <p><!--[Blank Page]--><br/></p> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page49" name="page49"></SPAN>[49]</span></p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> All above my bitter tea </p> <p class="i4"> I have set a lid </p> <p class="i2"> (As my bitter heart </p> <p class="i4"> By its red gown hid) </p> <p class="i2"> They write of bergamot </p> <p class="i4"> Because I did.... </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> (From its padded hangers </p> <p class="i4"> They've snatched my red gown, </p> <p class="i2"> Men as well as girls </p> <p class="i4"> And gone down town, </p> <p class="i2"> Flaunting my vocabulary, </p> <p class="i4"> Every verb and noun!) </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> And the grackle moans </p> <p class="i4"> High above the pot, </p> <p class="i2"> He is sick with herbs ... </p> <p class="i4"> <i>And am I not,</i> </p> <p class="i2"> <i>Who have brought in</i> </p> <p class="i4"> <i>Bergamot?</i> </p> </div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />