Explore "The Fool's Song" by William Carlos Williams on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I tried to put a bird in a cage.
O fool that I am!
For the bird was Truth.
Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put / Truth in a cage!
And when I had the bird in the cage, / O fool that I am!
Why, it broke my pretty cage.
Sing merrily, Truth; I tried to put / Truth in a cage!
And when the bird was flown from the cage, / O fool that I am!
Why, I had nor bird nor cage.
Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put / Truth in a cage!
Heigh-ho! Truth in a cage.