For all the young Birdlings, who wish’d to be Beaux:
He made for the Robin a doublet of red,
And a new velvet cap for the Goldfinch’s head;
He added a plume to the [Wren’s] golden crest,
And spangled with silver the Guinea-Fowl’s breast;
While the [Halcyon] bent over the streamlet to view,
How pretty she look’d in her boddice of blue!
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Thus adorn’d, they set off for the Peacock’s abode,
With the Guide [Indicator], who show’d them the road:
From all points of the compass, flock’d Birds of all feather;