<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Canaries - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil of beak and added claw,   The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!    And this--to gratify the gloating gaze     Of fools, who value Nature not a straw,      But know to prize the infraction of her law       An hard perversion of her creatures' ways!        Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,         Where notes of liquid utterance should engage          Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns.   - Julian C.H. Fane,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird  Always gayest of the gay,   Though a woodland roundelay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird  Always gayest of the gay,   Though a woodland roundelay    You ne'er sung not heard;     Though your life from youth to age      Passes is a narrow cage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing!  Thy dower is thy carolling;   Thou hast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing!  Thy dower is thy carolling;   Thou hast not far to seek    Thy bread, nor needest wine     To make thy utterance divine;      Thou art canopied and clothed       And unto Song bethrothed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5200</guid></item></channel></rss>