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The Phoenix and the Turtle : : By William Shakespeare ( 1564 – 1616 ) Let the bird of loudest layOn the sole Arabian treeHerald sad and trumpet be,To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou shrieking harbinger,Foul precurrer of the fiend,Augur of the fever’s end,To this troop come thou not near. From this sessionContinue reading “The Phoenix and the Turtle : William Shakespeare : : Bird Poems : :”