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Why is the cuckoo’s melody preferred,And nightingale’s rich songs so madly praisedIn poets’ rhymes! Is there no other birdOf Nature’s minstrelsy, that oft hath raisedOne’s heart to ecstasy and mirth as well?I judge not how another’s taste is caught,With mine are other birds that bear the bell,Whose song hath crowds of happy memories brought: —SuchContinue reading “The Wren : John Clare : : Bird Poems : :”