Vietnamese Cockatoo?

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The Red Cockatoo

Bai Juyi 772-846 Sent as a present from Annam-- A red cockatoo. Coloured like the peach-tree blossom, Speaking with the speech of men. And they did to it what is always done To the learned and eloquent. They took a cage with stout bars And shut it up inside.

Hóng Yīngwǔ

Bái Jūyì 772-846 Ānnán yuǎn jìn hóng yīngwǔ， Sè sì táohuā yǔ sì rén. Wénzhāng biàn huì jiē rú cǐ， Lóng kǎn hé nián chū dé shēn.

Translator:

Arthur Waley 亞瑟·魏黎

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