Living
The Slender Birds Enjoy Their Cages
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
The slender birds enjoy their cages,
Captivity the strong enrages.
While piping finches wag their tails
Before the catcher at Versailles,
Against the Czar the brave rebel
And hate the Kaisar worse than hell.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Slender Birds Enjoy Their Cages.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/894/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Slender Birds Enjoy Their Cages.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/894/.
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