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Poem of the Day: ‘By What Mistake Were Pigeons’

James Henry was an eccentric Irish physician and scholar of Virgil’s Latin who self-published several bad (or at least uneven) volumes of poetry.

'So plump and fat and sleek and well content': a pigeon.
'So plump and fat and sleek and well content': a pigeon. Via Wikimedia Commons

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