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: