Ingenious, George. I wonder how many others realised the Hughes possibility. Meanwhile, assuming everyone was right about birds for this one I will hope the following is not cuculus repetitus.
Dear Wordsworth, really, no soft soap,
Your PR piece -great verse!
You called me 'blessed', ‘darling’, 'hope',
Not 'parasite', or worse.
Whose fault is it I build no nest
And don’t stuff grubs down gapes ?
It’s genes – like those your lines attest
Make poets more than apes.
So, glad you thought my voice a hit
In what you kindly wrote,
But these days far too few emit
That plangent double note.
I’m sure, dear William, deeply stirred,
You’d put Time in the dock
To know your cuckoo’s now most heard
As part of some damned clock!
|