Bai Juyi - The Red Cockatoo
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2014-11-10
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A red cockatoo.
Coloured like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men.
And they did to it what is always done
To the learned and eloquent.
They took a cage with stout bars
And shut it up inside.
Bai Juyi
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-red-cockatoo-2/
A red cockatoo.
Coloured like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men.
And they did to it what is always done
To the learned and eloquent.
They took a cage with stout bars
And shut it up inside.
Bai Juyi
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-red-cockatoo-2/
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