Another parrot
This one is well-known, but what the heck....
The Red Cockatoo
Sent as a present from Annam -
A red cockatoo.
Colour'd 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.
(From Arthur Waley's translation of the ninth-century Chinese of Po Chu-I (772-846 AD))
The Red Cockatoo
Sent as a present from Annam -
A red cockatoo.
Colour'd 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.
(From Arthur Waley's translation of the ninth-century Chinese of Po Chu-I (772-846 AD))