From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   gnonie@aol.com writes:   
      
   > On Friday, May 9, 1997 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Hugh Williamson wrote:   
   >> Does anyone know the poem about the bird on the window sill which   
   >> ends   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "so I gently closed my window...and crushed it's little skull"   
   >   
   > One morning I could hardly wait to gazed out my window and look at my   
   > estate, my eyes fell upon a little bird with a beautiful yellow bill.   
   > I beckoned him to come and lite upon my sill.  I smiled at him so   
   > cheerfully and gave him a crust of bread, then quickly closed the   
   > window and crushed his f**king head.   
      
   Evidently these are nasty versions of   
      
     A birdie with a yellow bill   
     Hopped upon my window sill,   
     Cocked his shining eye and said,   
     "Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepyhead?"   
      
   by Robert Louis Stevenson in _A Child's Garden of Verses_.   
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   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
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