RED-EYED VIREO

When overhead you hear a bird

Who talks, or rather, chatters,

Of all the latest woodland news,

And other trivial matters,

Who is so kind, so very kind,

She never can say no,

And so the nasty Cowbird

Drops an egg among her row

Of neat white eggs. Behold her then,

The Red-eyed Vireo!

—Faith C. Lee, in Bird-Lore.