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The Parrots

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Somewhere, somewhen I've seen,     But where or when I'll never know,     Parrots of shrilly green     With crests of shriller scarlet flying     Out of black cedars as the sun was dying     Against cold peaks of snow.     From what forgotten life     Of other worlds I cannot tell     Flashes that screeching strife;     Yet the shrill colour and shrill crying     Sing through my blood and set my heart replying     And jangling like a bell.

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