Nature
The Mocking-Bird
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Nature
The name thou wearest does thee grievous wrong.
No mimic thou! That voice is thine alone!
The poets sing but strains of Shakespeare’s song;
The birds, but notes of thine imperial own!
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Stockard, Henry Jerome. “The Mocking-Bird.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stockard_hj/2/.
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Stockard, Henry Jerome. “The Mocking-Bird.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stockard_hj/2/.
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