<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358556" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Duval's Birds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The parrot, screeching, flew out into the darkness,<br>Circled three times above the upturned faces<br>With a great whir of brilliant outspread wings,<br>And then returned to stagger on her finger.<br>She bowed and smiled, eliciting applause. . .<br>The property man hated her dirty birds.<br>But it had taken years—yes, years—to train them,<br>To shoulder flags, strike bells by tweaking strings,<br>Or climb sedately little flights of stairs.<br>When they were stubborn, she tapped them with a wand,<br>And her eyes glittered a little under the eyebrows.<br>The red one flapped and flapped on a swinging wire;<br>The little white ones winked round yellow eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Conrad+Potter+Aiken">Conrad Potter Aiken</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358556" data-title="Duval's Birds de Conrad Potter Aiken" data-description="The parrot, screeching, flew out into the darkness, Circled three times above the upturned faces With a great whir of brilliant outspread wings, And then returned to stagger on her finger. She bowed and smiled, eliciting applause. . . The property..."></div> </div> </div>

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