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.

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