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A robin crosses a ridge and birds sing in Acron, Ohio, while the speaker recalls Gibbons's parents having a son destined to be a star.

The speaker returns to birds and landscape for the final statement of Gibbons's promise. The page does not describe his parents expressing that hope.

Three sentences, each opening with 'And': 'the red robin ran across the ridge', 'the birds sang in Acron, / Ohio', and the speaker knows 'that the parents of Gibbons had a son that was going / to be a star in the world.'

The repeated 'And' gives the short page a plain, cadenced, almost scriptural movement. Simple natural images of a robin and singing birds sit beside a statement of early promise, and the speaker presents that promise as known rather than hoped for. The brevity and calm contrast with the crowded, profane pages before it.