Letter Xiv. The Owl In Reply To The Wood-pigeon. (the Bird And Insects' Post-office.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E| DISTRESSED NEIGHBOUR | A |
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| I am sorry for your trouble but cheer up your spirits and though you are insulted remember who it is that gives the affront it is only the magpie and depend upon it that in general the best way to deal with impudent fools is to be silent and take no notice of them I should have enough to do if I were to resent all her impertinences She will come sometimes round the ivy where I lodge in the old elm or into the tower on the top of the hill and there she will pimp and pry into my private concerns and mob me and call me Old Wigsby and Doctor Winkum and such kind of names and all for nothing I assure you it is well for her that she is not a mouse or she should not long escape my talons but who ever heard of such a thing as eating a magpie I live chiefly on mice when I am at liberty to catch them but I have my complaints to make as well as you for you know I hold a high situation in the Post office and I suppose you know likewise that the letters are brought in so very late that it often takes me half the night to sort them and night is the very time when I ought to get my own food At this rate of going on and if the cats are industrious as usual there will not be a mouse left for me if I do not give up my place | B |
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| I have heard that my family are famed for wisdom but for my part I will not boast of any such thing yet I am wise enough to know that other people in high offices expect either a good salary or perquisites as a reward for their labour or what is easier still somebody to do all the work for them If I hold in my present mind until next quarter I will certainly send in my resignation Thus you see what an important thing it is to suit the person to the office or the office to the person on whom it is conferred for had the magpie for instance been secretary every one of the letters would have been peeped into for a certainty for nothing can escape her curiosity I will try to bear with my situation a little longer and believe me to be | C |
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| Your true friend | D |
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| SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF MANAGERS | E |
Robert Bloomfield
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