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Bird-Language


Trying to understand the words
Uttered on all sides by birds
I recognize in what I hear
Noises that betoken fear.

Though some of them, I’m certain, must
Stand for rage, bravado, lust,
All other notes that birds employ
Sound like synonyms for joy.


W.H. Auden