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tc573 | 12:48 Sun 29th May 2011 | Society & Culture
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I am looking for a poem and author/poet where the sparrow is described as a worker with brown coat and getting into fights
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Could be Sparrow by Norman MacCaig ?
22:53 Sun 29th May 2011
Could be Sparrow by Norman MacCaig ?
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Thank you Scotman this is it I forgot just how wonderful it is
Is this the one?

From here: http://forum.poetryco.../viewtopic.php?t=6959

Sparrow by Norman MacCaig
He's no artist
His taste in clothes is more
dowdy than gaudy.
And his nest - that blackbird, writing
pretty scrolls on the air with the gold nib of his beak,
woudl call it a slum.

To stalk solitary on lawns,
to sing solitary in midnight trees,
to glide solitary over grey Atlantics -
not for him: he'd rather
a punch up in a gutter.

He carries what learning he has
lightly - it is, in fact, based only
on the usefulness whose result
is survival. A proletarian bird.
No scholar.

But when winter soft-shoes in
and these other birds -
ballet dancers, musicians, architects -
die in the snow
and freeze to branches
watch him happily flying
on the O-levels and A-levels
of the air.

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