Memage

GOLDFINCH: You're the person everyone wishes they

could be. You're golden. Every project you

work on tends to succeed, every person wants

to open up to you and get your advice,

because you seem to keep your own life on its

track so well. They tend to miss your

private ups and downs, though.
from I STOOD TIPTOE
John Keats
c.1817
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Linger awhile upon some bending planks
That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks,
And watch intently Nature's gentle doings:
They will be found softer than ring-dove's cooings.

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Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop
From low hung branches; little space they stop;
But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek;
Then off at once, as in a wanton freak:
Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings,
Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.


Feathered Spirit - Which Birds Do You Flock With?
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I did a project on goldfinches with my dad when I was nine. We went out in the field behind the house and there were a couple hundred. They were feasting on thistles.