| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1260. The Southern Snow-Bird |
| | | By William Hamilton Hayne |
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| I SEE a tiny fluttering form | |
| Beneath the soft snow’s soundless storm, | |
| ’Mid a strange noonlight palely shed | |
| Through mocking cloud-rifts overhead. | |
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| All other birds are far from sight,— | 5 |
| They think the day has turned to night; | |
| But he is cast in hardier mould, | |
| This chirping courier of the cold. | |
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| He does not come from lands forlorn, | |
| Where midnight takes the place of morn; | 10 |
| Nor did his dauntless heart, I know, | |
| Beat first above Siberian snow; | |
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| And yet an arctic bird he seems; | |
| Though nurtured near our southern streams, | |
| The tip of his small tail may be | 15 |
| A snow-storm in epitome. | |
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