Tree with a Bird in it

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page67" name="page67"></SPAN>[67]</span></p> <div><SPAN name="h2H_4_0036" id="h2H_4_0036"></SPAN></div> <h2> <i>Grace Hazard and Hilda Conkling</i> </h2> <h3> THEY SEE THE BIRDIE </h3> <p class="quote"> (Mrs. Conkling points maternally.)</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i4"> Oh, Hilda! see the little Bird! </p> <p class="i4"> If you will watch, upon my word </p> <p class="i4"> He will come out; a Veery<SPAN href="#note-1" name="noteref-1"><small> 1</small></SPAN> he </p> <p class="i4"> As like an Oboe as can be: </p> <p class="i4"> He shall be wingèd, with a tail, </p> <p class="i4"> Mayhap a Beak him shall not fail! </p> <p class="i4"> And I will tell him, "Birdie, oh, </p> <p class="i4"> This is my Hilda, you must know&mdash; </p> <p class="i4"> And oh, what joy, if you but knew&mdash; </p> <p class="i4"> She shall make poetry on you!" </p> </div> </div> <p class="quote"> (The Birdie obliges, whereupon Hilda recites obediently, while her mother, concealing herself completely behind the bird, takes dictation.)</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i4"> Oh, my lovely Mother, </p> <p class="i4"> That is a Bird: </p> <p class="i4"> Sitting on a Tree. </p> <p class="i4"> I am a Little Girl </p> <p class="i4"> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page68" name="page68"></SPAN>[68]</span> Standing on the Ground. </p> <p class="i4"> I see the Bird, </p> <p class="i4"> The Bird sees me. </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i4"> <i>Bird!</i> </p> <p class="i4"> <i>Color of Grass!</i> </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i4"> <i>I love my Mother</i> </p> <p class="i7"> <i>More than I do You!</i> </p> </div> </div> <div style="height: 2em;"><br/><br/></div> <p class="foot"> <SPAN name="note-1"><!--Note--></SPAN> 1 (<SPAN href="#noteref-1"><small>return</small></SPAN>)<br/> Note by the Collator: I do not pretend to explain the veery-complex of American poets. They all seemed possessed to rub it into the poor bird that he wasn't one.</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />