The Red Cockatoo Poem by Bai Juyi

The Red Cockatoo

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A red cockatoo.
Coloured like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men.
And they did to it what is always done
To the learned and eloquent.
They took a cage with stout bars
And shut it up inside.

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Bai Juyi

Bai Juyi

Taiyuan, Shanxi
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