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   Joseph C. Fineman to originalmarmie2@gmail.com   
   Re: "bird on a window sill" poem   
   19 Jul 19 18:12:40   
   
   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   originalmarmie2@gmail.com writes:   
      
   > On Friday, May 9, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, 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"   
   >   
   > There was a little birdie   
   > that sat upon my window sill   
   > And as I watched him eat his bread   
   > I crushed him in his funk head.   
      
   Surely these are naughty versions of   
      
   A birdie with a yellow bill	   
   Hopped upon the window sill,	   
   Cocked his shining eye and said:	   
   “Ain’t you ’shamed, you sleepy-head!”	   
      
   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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