Great Regulars: No wonder that,

from the medieval Sufi poem "The Conference of the Birds" to the English nursery rhyme "Cock Robin" to the birds of the caucus-race in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, our mythologies have paired birds and discourse. We've put our arguments in the mouths of birds, and we've tried, like John Keats and Walt Whitman, to imagine the songs they would sing if they were human.

from Ange Mlinko: The Nation: Out of the Mouths of Birds

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