But our bird knew not of the free blue air,
He had lived in his cage, and his home was there :
No flight had he in the green wood flown -
He pined not for freedom he never had known!
If he had lived amid leaf and bough
It had been cruel to fetter him now;
For I have seen a poor bird die,
And all for love of his native sky. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

But our bird knew not of the free blue air, He had lived in his cage, and his home was there : No flight had he in the green wood flown - He pined not for freedom he never had known! If he had lived amid leaf and bough It had been cruel to fetter him now; For I have seen a poor bird die, And all for love of his native sky.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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