A Plan for Preserving Birdsong

Is it true that tiny lawyers
.....Hatch in puddles in the spring?
I plan to capture orioles,
.....And teach them how to sing.

But if they can't, the lawyers,
.....Dressed in cunning feathered suits,
Will congregate in sheltered spots
.....And toot on tiny flutes.

- Dennis Lee, The Bard of the Universe