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<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page50" name="page50"></SPAN>[50]</span></p> <div><SPAN name="h2H_4_0027" id="h2H_4_0027"></SPAN></div> <h2> <i>John V. A. Weaver</i> </h2> <p class="quote"> (With a strong note of infant brutality.)</p> <h3> THE WEAVER BIRD </h3> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> Gosh, kid! that bird a-cheepin' in the tree </p> <p class="i2"> All green an' cocky—why, it might be me </p> <p class="i2"> Singin' to you.... Wisht I was just a bird </p> <p class="i2"> Bringin' you worms—aw, you know, things I've heard </p> <p class="i2"> 'Bout me—an' flowers, maybe.... Like as not </p> <p class="i2"> Somebody'd get me with an old slingshot </p> <p class="i2"> An' I'd be dead.... Gee, it'd break you up! </p> <p class="i2"> Nothin' would be the same to you, I bet, </p> <p class="i2"> Knowin' my grave was out there in the wet </p> <p class="i2"> And we two couldn't pet no more.... Say, kid, </p> <p class="i2"> It makes me weep, same as it always did, </p> <p class="i2"> To think how bad you'd feel.... </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i32"> I got a thought, </p> <p class="i2"> An awful funny one I sorta caught— </p> <p class="i2"> Nobody never thought that way, I guess— </p> <p class="i2"> When I get blue, an' things is in a mess </p> <p class="i2"> I map out all my funeral, the hearses </p> <p class="i2"> An' nineteen carriages, an' folks with verses </p> <p class="i2"> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page51" name="page51"></SPAN>[51]</span> Sayin' how great I was, an' all like that, </p> <p class="i2"> An' wreaths, an' girls with crapes around their hat </p> <p class="i2"> Tellin' the world how bad their hearts was broke, </p> <p class="i2"> An' you, just smashed to think I had to croak.... </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> I can't stand that bird, somehow—makes me cry.... </p> <p class="i2"> <i>The world'll be darn sorry when I die!</i> </p> </div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />

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