<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537878" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Jackdaw</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a bird who, by his coat<br>And by the hoarseness of his note,<br>Might be supposed a crow;<br>A great frequenter of the church,<br>Where, bishop-like, he finds a perch,<br>And dormitory too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Above the steeple shines a plate,<br>That turns and turns, to indicate<br>From what point blows the weather.<br>Look up -- your brains begin to swim,<br>'Tis in the clouds -- that pleases him,<br>He chooses it the rather.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fond of the speculative height,<br>Thither he wings his airy flight,<br>And thence securely sees<br>The bustle and the rareeshow,<br>That occupy mankind below,<br>Secure and at his ease.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You think, no doubt, he sits and muses<br>On future broken bones and bruises,<br>If he should chance to fall.<br>No; not a single thought like that<br>Employs his philosophic pate,<br>Or troubles it at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He sees that this great roundabout,<br>The world, with all its motley rout,<br>Church, army, physic, law,<br>Its customs and its businesses,<br>Is no concern at all of his,<br>And says -- what says he? -- Caw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thrice happy bird! I too have seen<br>Much of the vanities of men;<br>And, sick of having seen 'em,<br>Would cheerfully these limbs resign<br>For such a pair of wings as thine<br>And such a head between 'em.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537878" data-title="The Jackdaw de William Cowper" data-description="There is a bird who, by his coat And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where, bishop-like, he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to in..."></div> </div> </div>

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