A sweet-voiced bird's been caught.
They squeeze it in a vice-like grip.
The poor thing squeaks and warbles not
But they insist: "O, birdie, sing!"
On A Bird
written byGavrila Romanovich Derzhavin
© Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin
A sweet-voiced bird's been caught.
They squeeze it in a vice-like grip.
The poor thing squeaks and warbles not
But they insist: "O, birdie, sing!"
© Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin