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I’d Be Very Grateful If Someone Could Shed Light On The Origin Of This Extract
Sparrows are common
Yet who can describe their thousand and one changes
Of colour as they quiver in the sun
Like thoughts of old rainbows?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.This is from a poem by Hugh MacDiarmid, in the collection Stony Limits. Not sure of the title.
A handy tip for using the all knowing Google search engine, take a distinctive passage, 4,5,6 words or so, enter it in quotation marks in the search box, and select Books tab rather than All tab. This will bring up snippets which can provide at least a lead.
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