"I like 

 The shrike, 



Because, with a thorn for a guillotine, 

 He does his work so well and clean, 

 A critic keen - 

 A practical bird, 

 Whose common sense 

 Must be immense, 

 For, tell me, who has ever heard 



Of such a thing 

 As a loggerhead shrike that tried to sing?" 



Thompson. 



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