Tree with a Bird in it

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page61" name="page61"></SPAN>[61]</span></p> <div><SPAN name="h2H_4_0033" id="h2H_4_0033"></SPAN></div> <h2> <i>Henry van Dyke</i> </h2> <p class="quote"> (Who, although for different reasons, did not care for the Grackle either.)</p> <h3> THE ROILING OF HENRY </h3> <p class="center"> (<span class="sc">A Song of the Grating Outdoors</span>)</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> Bird, thou art not a Veery, </p> <p class="i4"> Nor yet a Yellowthroat, </p> <p class="i2"> Ne'erless, I knew thy gentle song, </p> <p class="i4"> Long, long e'er I could vote; </p> <p class="i2"> Thou art not a Blue Flower, </p> <p class="i4"> Nor e'en a real Blue Bird; </p> <p class="i2"> Yet there's a moral high and pure </p> <p class="i4"> In all thy likings heard: </p> <p class="i2"> "<i>Grack-grack-grack-grack-grack-grack&mdash;</i> </p> <p class="i6"> <i>Go on and ne'er look back!</i>" </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> The noble tow'rs of Princeton </p> <p class="i4"> Hear high thy pensive trill, </p> <p class="i2"> And eke my ear has heard thee </p> <p class="i4"> The while I fished the rill; </p> <p class="i2"> Thy note rings out at daybreak </p> <p class="i4"> Before I rise to toil; </p> <p class="i2"> Thou counselest Persistence; </p> <p class="i4"> Thy song no stone can spoil; </p> <p class="i2"> "<i>Grack-grack-grack-grack-grack-grack&mdash;</i> </p> <p class="i4"> <i>Go on and ne'er look back!</i>" </p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p class="i2"> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page62" name="page62"></SPAN>[62]</span> Yet, Bird, there is a limit </p> <p class="i4"> To all I've undergone; </p> <p class="i2"> From five o'clock till five o'clock </p> <p class="i4"> Thou'st chanted o'er my lawn; </p> <p class="i2"> I cannot get my work done ... </p> <p class="i4"> I give thee, Bird, advice; </p> <p class="i2"> If thou wouldst save thy skin alive, </p> <p class="i4"> Let me not warn thee twice, </p> <p class="i2"> "<i>Grack-grack-grack-grack-grack-grack&mdash;</i> </p> <p class="i4"> <i>Go on and ne'er look back!</i>" </p> </div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />