Tree with a Bird in it

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page63" name="page63"></SPAN>[63]</span></p> <div><SPAN name="h2H_4_0034" id="h2H_4_0034"></SPAN></div> <h2> <i>Cale Young Rice</i> </h2> <p class="quote"> (Who came out rather tired from trying to choose a new suit, and could not get it off his mind.)</p> <h3> PANTINGS </h3> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> Pantings, Pantings, Pantings! </p> <p class="i4"> Gents' immanent furnishings! </p> <p class="i2"> On a mystic tide I ride, I ride, </p> <p class="i4"> Of the clothes of a million springs! </p> <p class="i2"> I take the train for the suburbs </p> <p class="i4"> Or I sweep from Pole to Pole, </p> <p class="i2"> But where is the window that holds them not, </p> <p class="i4"> Gents' furnishings of my soul! </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> Pantings, Pantings, Pantings! </p> <p class="i4"> Shirtings and coatings too! </p> <p class="i2"> How can I think of mere birds, nor blink </p> <p class="i4"> In the Cosmic Hullaballoo? </p> <p class="i2"> The hot world throbs with Immenseness, </p> <p class="i4"> The Voidness plunks in the Void, </p> <p class="i2"> And all of it doubtless has something to do </p> <p class="i4"> With Employer and Unemployed! </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page64" name="page64"></SPAN>[64]</span> Pantings! Pantings! Pantings! </p> <p class="i4"> Trousers through all the town! </p> <p class="i2"> And the tailors' dummies with iron for tummies </p> <p class="i4"> Smirk in their blue and brown; </p> <p class="i2"> I float in a slithering simoon </p> <p class="i4"> Of fevered and surging tints, </p> <p class="i2"> And my ears are dulled with the mighty throb </p> <p class="i4"> Of the Male Best Dressers' Hints: </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> <i>Pantings! Pantings! Pantings!</i> </p> <p class="i4"> <i>My wardrobe, they send it fleet....</i> </p> <p class="i2"> <i>Ah, the Is and the Was and the Never Does....</i> </p> <p class="i4"> <i>And the Cosmos at last complete!</i> </p> </div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />