Little Rascal: How is it birds who come in plain packets sing so extravagantly?…
Little Rascal:
How is it birds who
come in plain packets sing so
extravagantly?
Little brown winged-thing,
hardly worth looking at,
urchin hid in shrub,
tell me where you stole
that dazzling necklace
strung with diamond notes?
Out of God##039;s pocket?
— Paul Quenon, from Unquiet Vigil
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