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Couplet about Birds by Thomas Gray

Analysis

"Couplet about Birds" is a short poem wirtten by Thomas Gray. This is a couplet written about birds. He says that a woodlark is sitting "there" singing with no one else around. He says that the bird is simply wasting his breath.

Poem

Couplet about Birds
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There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there
Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air.
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