Tree with a Bird in it

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page53" name="page53"></SPAN>[53]</span></p> <div><SPAN name="h2H_4_0029" id="h2H_4_0029"></SPAN></div> <h2> <i>Elinor Wylie</i> </h2> <p class="quote"> (With an air of admitting the tragic and all-important fact.)</p> <h3> THE GRACKLE IS THE LOON </h3> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> Never believe this bird connotes </p> <p class="i4"> Jade whorls of carven commonness: </p> <p class="i2"> Nor as from ordinary throats </p> <p class="i4"> Slides his sharp song in ice-strung stress. </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> He is the cold and scornful Loon, </p> <p class="i4"> Who, hoping that the sun shall fail, </p> <p class="i2"> Steeps in the silver of the moon </p> <p class="i4"> His burnished claws, his chiseled tail. </p> </div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />