"A Minor Bird

I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;

Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.

The fault must partly have been in me;
The bird was not to blame for his key.

And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song."

--Rob*rt Frost, in: Chi*f Mod*rn Po*ts of *ngland and Am*rica (1947)