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• Come fill the cup and in the fire of spring Your winter garment of repentence fling.
  The bird of time has but a little way To flutter -- and the bird is on the wing. -- Omar Khayyam...
• Bother! said Pooh, as he shot that bird in the wing.
• A bird can fly, but a fly can't bird. -- Tao of Pooh.
• There is a little bird in the cage.
• May the bird of paradise fly up your nose.
• May the bird of paradise nose up your fly.
• Well, you see, it's such a transitional creature. It's a piss-poor reptile and not very much of a bird.
• A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly 't is a rare bird in the land.
  Omar Khayyám (Translated by Edward Fitzgerald.)...
• Look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...........a bird.