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Tiresias

By Thomas Woolner

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“Birds varying, O Mother, each from each,
As other two-legged beings of this world,
The poet nightingales are not exempt.
One sings the nuptials of the earth and air;
The other praises forage without stint:
Proving an old saw, ‘Many make a world’;
And most are busiest in their own concerns,
As this near wren now twittering in the twigs.