Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BLACKBIRD AND THE THRUSH, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING


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THE BLACKBIRD AND THE THRUSH, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's my idee,' a blackbird said
Last Line: "and a parrot said: ""so do I."
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Fables; Farm Life; Parrots; Thrushes; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers


"IT'S my idee," a blackbird said,
As he sat in a mulberry bush,
"It's my idee, it seems to me,
I can warble as well as a thrush."

"Let'er go, let'er go," said a carrion crow,
As he swung on an old clothesline,
"For I won't budge, but I'll act as judge,
And the winner I'll ask to dine."

In a minor key the thrush sang he,
'Way up in an elm remote,
And twice and thrice like paradise
Songs welled from the warbler's throat.

Then a rooster he, in his usual glee,
Flew up on the barnyard fence,
And he crowed and he crowed; then he said:
"I'll be blowed
If that isn't simply immense."
Then the blackbird, well, he listened a spell
And began in garrulous run,
But he wasn't admired, for a farmer tired --
Well, he up and fired a gun.

Then the black crow said, as he rested his head:
"I want to go somewhere and die."
And a young cock-a-too said: "I do, too,"
And a parrot said: "So do I."





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