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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_.       --       --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net              ||: Women expect men to change when they marry, and men expect :||       ||: women to stay the same; but they never do. :||              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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