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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SIX MOVEMENTS; FOR MRS. EDWARD MACDOWELL: 4. CITY CHAP, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography
First Line: Who's that dusty stranger? What's he doing here?
Last Line: Of winters, towns, and people no kinder.
Subject(s): Birds
First Line: Who's that dusty stranger? What's he doing here?
Last Line: Of winters, towns, and people no kinder.
Subject(s): Birds
Who's that dusty stranger? -- What's he doing here? --
That city-bred bird with the ill-bred leer? --
Perching on branches like telegraph wires? --
Chirping his slang above passionate fires? --
Poking his head about, twitching his tail? --
Getting drunk in our pools as though they were ale? --
Never accepting, but stealing our rations? --
Acting toward us as he would to relations? --
Who asked him hither, what led him this way? --
With his critical carping, his mockery, eh? --
And worse than all these, he's a jerky reminder
Of winters, towns, and people no kinder.
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