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Ednah Proctor Hayes

  • “List to that bird! His song — what poet pens it? / Brigand of birds, he's stolen every note! / Prince though of thieves — hark! how the rascal spends it! / Pours the whole forest from one tiny throat!”

    • Ednah Proctor Hayes,
    • "The Mocking-Bird," in Edmund Clarence Stedman, An American Anthology 1787-1900 ()

Ednah Proctor Hayes, U.S. poet

Full name: Ednah Proctor Clarke Hayes.