In came t’ other and then there were two;

Says one bird to t’ other, “How do you do?”

“Very well, I thank you; pray how do you?”


Fama est par avium venisse insistere saxo,

Quarum primâ abeunte superstitit inde secunda:

Illa autem fugiens jam vix vestigia liquit,

Et saxum mœrens in campo luget inani.

Ecce autem rediens avium comparuit una,

Altera non segnis sociam complectitur almam: