Tree with a Bird in it

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page57" name="page57"></SPAN>[57]</span></p> <div><SPAN name="h2H_4_0031" id="h2H_4_0031"></SPAN></div> <h2> <i>Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</i> </h2> <p class="quote"> (Who, having engagements to speak at ten unveilings, and nine public schools and twelve other symposiums, stayed away, but sent this handsome tribute by wire.)</p> <h3> THE SYMPOSIUM LEADING NOWHERE </h3> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> I sing of the joy of the Small Paths </p> <p class="i4"> The paths that lead nowhere at all, </p> <p class="i2"> (Though I never have gone on them nevertheless </p> <p class="i4"> They are admirable, and so small!) </p> <p class="i2"> I go out at midnight in motors </p> <p class="i4"> But, being a Roosevelt, I drive </p> <p class="i2"> Straight ahead on the neatly paved highway, </p> <p class="i4"> For I wish with much speed to arrive. </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> Oh, the joy and effulgence of Small Paths </p> <p class="i4"> Surrounded with Birds and with Trees </p> <p class="i2"> I would love to go down on a Small Path </p> <p class="i4"> And sit in communion with these! </p> <p class="i2"> Oh, Grackle, I yearn to be with you, </p> <p class="i4"> For poetic communion I yearn </p> <p class="i2"> But I have ten engagements to speak in the suburbs </p> <p class="i4"> And alas, I've no time to return. </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page58" name="page58"></SPAN>[58]</span> <i>Oh alas, the undone moments,</i> </p> <p class="i4"> <i>Oh, the myriad hours bereft</i> </p> <p class="i2"> <i>Trying to be twenty people</i> </p> <p class="i4"> <i>And to do things right and left.</i> </p> <p class="i2"> <i>I would sit down by a Small Path</i> </p> <p class="i4"> <i>And would make me a Large Rhyme</i> </p> <p class="i2"> <i>I should love to find my soul there</i> </p> <p class="i4"> <i>But I haven't got the time!</i> </p> </div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />