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 Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool!
 Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe?
  Thine ever-ready notes read more 
 Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool!
 Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe?
  Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule
   Pursue thy fellows still with jest and jibe:
    Wit, sophist, songster, Yorick of thy tribe;
     Thou sportive satirist of Nature's school;
      To thee the palm of scoffing we ascribe,
       Arch-mocker and mad abbot of misrule!