Until, with age, from green and gold

His wings grew gray.

At last, when blind and seeming dumb,

He scolded, laugh’d, and spoke no more,

A Spanish stranger chanced to come

To Mulla’s shore.

He hail’d the bird in Spanish speech,

The bird in Spanish speech replied;

Flapt round his cage with joyous screech,

Dropt down and died.