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C J Dennis - The Pallid Cuckoo
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Dolefully and drearily
  Come I with the spring;
Wearily and cerily
  My threnody I sing.
Hear my drear, discordant note
  Sobbing, sobbing in my throat,
  Weaving, wailing thro` the wattles
  Where the builders are a-wing.

Outcast and ostracized,
  Miserable me!
By the feathered world despised,
  Chased from tree to tree.
Nought to do the summer thro`,
  My woeful weird a dree;
  Singing, "Pity, ah, pity,
  Miserable me!"

I`m the menace and the warning,
  Loafing, labour-shy.
In the harmony of morning
  Out of tune am I-
Out of tune and out of work,
Meanly `mid the leaves I lurk,
  Fretfully to sing my sorrow,
    Furtively to spy.

Outcast and desolate,
  Miserable me!
Earning ever scorn and hate
  For my treachery.
Shiftless drone, I grieve alone,
  To a mournful key
  Singing, "Sorrow, ah, sorrow!
  Miserable me!"
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