292 GRAY LADY AND THE BIRDS 
human quality to Citizen Bird, while it proves that he or 
she who either cages or buys the captive wholly lacks 
the spiritual quality. 
Should we make prisoners of 
“The ballad-singers and the Troubadours, 
The street musicians of the heavenly city, 
The birds, who make sweet music for us all 
In our dark hours, as David did for Saul’? 
