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Sky-coloured bird, blue wings with no more spots of spotless    white
Dappled, than on a day in spring
When the brown meadows trickle with a hundred brooks two / inches broad and wink and flash back light-
Dappled with no more white than on an all but cloudless sky / makes clear blue deeper and more bright.
Exquisite glutton, azure coward with proud crest
And iridescent nape- Mild milky mauve, chalcedony, then lustred, and all amethyst, / then brushed with bronze, the half-green clustered with / the ripe grape, under the lapis crest.
Dull-feathered bird today, pecking at ashes by the cinder-pit, / your clanging tone alone makes known our northern jay
Sky-coloured-under a slaty sky sky-coloured still, slate-grey.