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A red cockatoo.
Coloured like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men.
And they did to it what is always done
To the learned and eloquent.
They took a cage with stout bars
And shut it up inside.
The Red Cockatoo
Bai Juyi
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Poem topics: red, tree, speech, cage, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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