Another parrot
Feb. 13th, 2013 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This one is well-known, but what the heck....
The Red Cockatoo
The Red Cockatoo
Sent as a present from Annam - A red cockatoo. Colour'd 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. (From Arthur Waley's translation of the ninth-century Chinese of Po Chu-I (772-846 AD))