The Linnet
Jul 28, 2021
2 minutes
BY JOHN McEWEN
ILLUSTRATED BY CARRY AKROYD
n the nightingale rates most poems, followed by the skylark, robin, cuckoo, song thrush and wren. The finches, for all their beauty, are also-rans, the linnet () pipping the goldfinch for the longest entry. Yet it is prominent in
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