If this news story -- about Nigel, the gannet bird who lived a mateless, lonely life on a remote New Zealand island -- doesn't tug at your heartstrings &, when you reach the memorial verse, make you want to write an elegy of your own, then, well, I just don't know what to say...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.f2e1b76f05a4