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 Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember 
it's a sin to kill a read more 
 Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember 
it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. 
 The nightingale has a lyre of gold,
 The lark's is a clarion call,
  And the blackbird plays read more 
 The nightingale has a lyre of gold,
 The lark's is a clarion call,
  And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute,
   But I love him best of all.
    For his song is all the joy of life,
     And we in the mad spring weather,
      We two have listened till he sang
       Our hearts and lips together. 
 Fish got to swim and birds got to fly
 I got to love one man till I die,
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 Fish got to swim and birds got to fly
 I got to love one man till I die,
  Can't help lovin' dat man of mine. 
 A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
 [A feather in hand is better than read more 
 A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
 [A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air.] 
 Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich 
in thy bedchamber; for a read more 
 Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich 
in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, 
and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. 
 Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these?
 Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught
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 Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these?
 Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught
  The dialect they speak, where melodies
   Alone are the interpreters of thought?
    Whose household words are songs in many keys,
     Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught!
   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 
 Every bird that upwards swings
 Bears the Cross upon its wings.  
 Every bird that upwards swings
 Bears the Cross upon its wings. 
 Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray,
 With joyous musick wake the dawning day.  
 Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray,
 With joyous musick wake the dawning day.