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hundred years at least, had seen This Monarch Elm on Norton Green, The noisy rooks its boughs among, Had built their nests and reared their young. The sparrows claimed a vested right To chirrup on its topmost height; The starling, in its hollow arm Had built, for years, its nest so warm. [Though, lying useless, all around Was lots of fitting vacant ground,] The poor old tree was doomed to fall, And rooks and starlings banished all.