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Competition

No. 1230: Bird song

Set by Jaspistos: Many a poet has en- thusiastically addressed a bird. You are in- vited to supply part of an ode (maximum 16 lines) in which a bird is unenthusiastically addressing Man or a man. Entries to 'Com- petition No. 1230' by 20 August.