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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936).  Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.  1912–22.
 
The Bird
By Max Michelson
 
From a branch
The bird called:
 
    I hold your heart!
    I wash it,
    And scour it        5
    With bits of song
    Like pebbles;
    And your doubts
    And your sorrows
    Fall—drip, drip, drip—        10
    Like dirty water.
    I pipe to it
    In little notes
    Of life clear as a pool,
    And of death        15
    Clearer still;
    And I swoop with it
    In the blue
    And in the nest
    Of a cloud.        20
 
 
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