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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Henry JeromeStockard

1326 The Mocking-Bird

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!