Chapter IV

Two full hours before the dawn,
Dotard Parrot cocks an ear
To the sleeper's moan, long-drawn,
To her slurring tale of fear.

Parrot hears Delilah tell
Who lies dead below the stair;
How he shuddered, stumbled, fell;
In whose cause she laid him there.

_The knife bit, thus: thus, the blood spread!_
Connoisseur of fo'c'stle speeches
Parrot tilts his bald, sly head,
Learns the spicy yarn she teaches.

Soon, when sunlight warms his cage,
He plots to cheer the passers-by
With burlesque of murderous rage,
Acting how his victims die:
Thus, he stabs 'em; there, they lie.

POETRY BY THE SAME AUTHOR

1916 Over the Brazier Poetry Bookshop.
(New edition with slight alterations, 1920.)

1917 Fairies and Fusiliers William Heinemann.
American edition, 1918. Alfred Knopf.

1920 Country Sentiment Martin Secker.
American edition, 1920. Alfred Knopf.

Contributions to Georgian Poetry, 1915-1917 and 1918-19.

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Minor punctuation and printer errors were corrected.