• O Blackbird! sing me something well:
      While all the neighbors shoot thee round,
      I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground,
    Where thou may’st warble, eat, and dwell.

    The espaliers and the standards all
      Are thine; the range of lawn and park:
      The unnetted black-hearts ripen dark;
    All thine, against the garden wall.

    Yet, tho’...