Don Marquis _The Meeting of the Columns_ 75 Christopher Morley _The Mocking-Hoarse-Bird_ 80 Franklin Pierce Adams _To a Grackle_ 83 Thomas Augustin Daly _Carlo the Gardener_ 84 Vachel Lindsay _The Hoboken Grackle and the Hobo_ 85 Percy Mackaye } Josephine Preston Peabody } _Dies Illa: A Bird of a Masque_ 89 Isabel Fiske Conant } Arthur Guiterman _A Tree with a Bird in It: Rhymed Review_ 101 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Edwin Markham 5 Witter Bynner 6 Carl Sandburg 15 Margaret Widdemer 25 Conrad Aiken 31 The Benets 39 Lola Ridge 43 Edna St. Vincent Millay 47 Leonora Speyer 55 Edgar Guest 73 Don Marquis and Christopher Morley 77 Vachel Lindsay 87 A TREE WITH A BIRD IN IT _Jessie B. Rittenhouse_ (She steps brightly forward with an air of soprano introduction.) RESIGNATION I look from out my window, Beloved, and I see A bird upon a pear bough, But what is that to me? Because the thought comes icy; That bird you never knew-- It's not your bird or pear tree, And what is it to you? _Edwin Markham_ (who, though he had to lay a cornerstone, unveil a bust of somebody, give two lectures and write encouraging introductions to the works of five young poets before catching the three-ten for Staten Island, offered his reaction in a benevolent and unhurried manner.) THE BIRD WITH THE WOE Poets to men a curious sight afford; Still they will sing, though all around are bored; But this wise grackle does a kinder thing; Silent he's bored, while all around him sing! [Illustration] [Illustration] _Witter Bynner_ (Prefaced by a short baritone talk on Chinese architecture.) THE UNITY OF ONENESS Celia, have you been to China? There upon a mystic tree Sits a bird who murmurs Chinese Of the Me in Thee. 'Neath that tree of willow-pattern Twice seven thousand scornful go Paraphrasers and translators Of the long-deceased Li-Po: