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1868–1955

The Yellow-Hammer, or the Flicker...

Robert Williams Wood

The Yellow-Hammer, or the Flicker, More briefly “Golden-winged Wood-picker”, My drawing of which striking bird May seem to you perhaps absurd,

You even may suspect I stole The idea from some Totem-pole: But when you gaze upon the Fish, You lose all patience and say “Pish!

I do n't believe you ever saw A Saw-fish look like this, Oh Pshaw! There certainly is some mistake, This is a saw-did Nature fake,

In fact a perfect cata-clysm Of fishy Yellow-journalism.”

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The Yellow-Hammer, or the Flicker... · Robert Williams Wood · Poetry Cove