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IMITATRIX ALES by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS

First Line: I WAS A JAY-BIRD, SCREECHING BACK THE NOISE
Last Line: HAVING RENOUNCED MY TASTE FOR MIMICRY.
I WAS a jay-bird, screeching back the noise
Of fishermen or foresters or herds;
Often with Echo's iterative voice
My mocking beak would caw a string of words:
Now dumb and tongueless here in earth I lie,
Having renounced my taste for mimicry.




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