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Ten of the best songbirds in poetry
At the Guardian John Mullan named ten of the best songbirds in poetry.One songbird on the list:Sterne's starlingOn his visit to Paris in A Sentimental Journey, Yorick is musing on French tyranny when he hears a starling in a cage, not singing but complaining. "'I can't get out – I can't get out,' said the starling". Yorick tries unsuccessfully to release the bird. "I vow I never had my affections





