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    A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle
    A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle
    A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle
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    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 William Saphier and Margaret Widdemer

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle - William Saphier

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      Title: A Tree with a Bird in it:

      a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown

      a pear-tree on which sat a grackle

      Author: Margaret Widdemer

      Illustrator: William Saphier

      Release Date: July 24, 2011 [EBook #36831]

      Language: English

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      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 of whose windows there grew a pear-tree. On the branches of this tree lived a green bird of indeterminate nature. I do not know what his real name was, but the name, to quote our great exemplar Lewis Carroll, by which his name was called was the Grackle. He seemed perfectly willing to be addressed thus, and accordingly was.

      Aside from watching the Pear-Tree and the Grackle, my other principal occupation that winter was watching the Poetry Society of America now and then at its monthly meetings. It occurred to me finally to invite such members of it as cared to come, following many good examples, to an outdoor symposium under the tree. The result follows.

      Margaret Widdemer.

      P.S.—The tree died.

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