Tree with a Bird in it — The Unity of Oneness by Witter Bynner

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: Chinese feelings swift discerning Without all this time and fuss Let us eat that bird, thus learning Of the Him in Us!

_Amy Lowell_ (Fixing her glasses firmly on the rest of the Poetry Society in a way which makes them with difficulty refrain from writhing.

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