A TREE WITH A BIRD IN IT
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
AUTHOR OF "FACTORIES," "THE OLD ROAD TO PARADISE," "CROSS CURRENTS," ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
WILLIAM SAPHIER
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY
RAHWAY, N. J.
THIS IS DEDICATED
WITH MY FORGIVENESS IN ADVANCE
TO THE POETS PARODIED IN THIS BOOK
AND THE POETS NOT PARODIED IN THIS BOOK
FOREWORD
By the Collator
A little while since, I had the fortune to live in a house, outside ofwhose windows there grew a pear-tree. On the branches of this tree liveda green bird of indeterminate nature. I do not know what his real namewas, but the name, to quote our great exemplar Lewis Carroll, by whichhis name was called was the Grackle. He seemed perfectly willing tobe addressed thus, and accordingly was.
Aside from watching the Pear-Tree and the Grackle, my other principaloccupation that winter was watching the Poetry Society of America nowand then at its monthly meetings. It occurred to me finally to invitesuch members of it as cared to come, following many good examples, toan outdoor symposium under the tree. The result follows.
Margaret Widdemer.
P.S.—The tree died.