The Caged Bird

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Title:     The Caged Bird
Author: William Lisle Bowles [More Titles by Bowles]

Oh, who would keep a little bird confined,
When cowslip bells are nodding in the wind;
When every hedge as with "good morrow" rings,
And, heard from wood to coombe, the blackbird sings!
Oh! who would keep a little bird confined
In his cold wiry prison? Let him fly,
And hear him sing: How sweet is liberty!

[The end]
William Lisle Bowles's poem: Caged Bird

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