Songs About Life and Brighter Things Yet XXIX
The parrot does the best he can To imitate the talk of Man, But since he has no gift for speech, The best the bird can do is screech.
Samuel Hoffenstein
The parrot does the best he can To imitate the talk of Man, But since he has no gift for speech, The best the bird can do is screech.
A parrot does its best to copy human speech, but because it lacks the real gift of language, its closest attempt comes out as a screech. The speaker treats this with dry, affectionate amusement: the bird is not mocked for trying, only gently exposed as limited.
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