Tree with a Bird in it

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page59" name="page59"></SPAN>[59]</span></p> <div><SPAN name="h2H_4_0032" id="h2H_4_0032"></SPAN></div> <h2> <i>Ridgely Torrence</i> </h2> <p class="quote"> (Who felt that the Bird did not sufficiently uphold Art.)</p> <h3> THE FOWL OF A THOUSAND FLIGHTS </h3> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> Grackle, Grackle on your tree, </p> <p class="i4"> There's something wrong to-day, </p> <p class="i2"> In the moonlight, in the quiet evening, </p> <p class="i4"> You will rise and croak and fly away; </p> <p class="i2"> Oh, you have sat and listened till you're wild for flight </p> <p class="i4"> (And that's all right) </p> <p class="i2"> But you have never criticised a single song </p> <p class="i4"> (And that's all wrong) </p> <p class="i2"> Lo, would you add despair unto despair? </p> <p class="i2"> Do you not care </p> <p class="i2"> That all these lesser children of the Muse </p> <p class="i2"> Shall sing to you exactly as they choose? </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> You are ungrateful, Fowl. I wrote a poem, </p> <p class="i2"> Once, in the middle of August, intending to show 'em </p> <p class="i2"> That you should not </p> <p class="i2"> Be shot: </p> <p class="i2"> What saw I then, what heard? </p> <p class="i2"> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page60" name="page60"></SPAN>[60]</span> Multitudes&mdash;multitudes, under the tree they stirred, </p> <p class="i2"> And with too many a broken note and wheeze </p> <p class="i2"> They sang what each did please.... </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> And Thou, </p> <p class="i2"> O bird of emeraldine beak and brow, </p> <p class="i2"> Thou sawest it all, and did not even cackle, </p> <p class="i2"> Grackle! </p> </div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />