A prompt, executive Bird is the Jay
by Emily Dickinson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
LXVI.
APROMPT, executive Bird is the Jay,
Bold as a Bailiff's hymn,
Brittle and brief in quality—
Warrant in every line;
Sitting a bough like a Brigadier,
Confident and straight,
Much is the mien
Of him in March
As a Magistrate.