A Tree with a Bird in it: / A Symposium of Contemporary American Poets on Being Shown a Pear-tree on Which Sat a Grackle

by Margaret Widdemer

Farewell.

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Arthur Guiterman

(He recites with appropriate gestures.)

A TREE WITH A BIRD IN IT: A RHYMED REVIEW

It seems that Margaret Widdemer

Possessed a Tree with a Bird in it,

And being human, prone to err,

Thought 'twould be pleasant to begin it,