Tree with a Bird in it

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page83" name="page83"></SPAN>[83]</span></p> <div><SPAN name="h2H_4_0042" id="h2H_4_0042"></SPAN></div> <h2> <i>Franklin P. Adams</i> </h2> <p class="quote"> (Coldly ignoring the roistering of his friends, addresses the Grackle with bitterness:)</p> <h3> TO A GRACKLE </h3> <p class="center"> (Horace, Ode XVIXXV, p. 23)</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> Bird, if you think I do not care </p> <p class="i4"> To gaze upon your feathered form </p> <p class="i2"> Rather than converse with some fair </p> <p class="i4"> Or make my brow with tennis warm; </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> If you should think I'd liefer far </p> <p class="i4"> Hear your sweet song than fast be driving </p> <p class="i2"> Within my costly motor car </p> <p class="i4"> And in my handsome home arriving, </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> If you should think I would be gone </p> <p class="i4"> Far sooner than you might expect </p> <p class="i2"> From off this uncolumnar lawn; </p> <p class="i4"> Bird, you'd be utterly correct! </p> </div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />