See attachment for the original of this little poem (I'm not really a poet and couldn't come up with anything better than these lines as a birthday present).

 

The pale fire of Spring! It is not allowed

to play with it, burning transparently.

The hero’s suicide is postponed

till October 19.
 
Back to the ancients, I notice that there is a hazelhen in Aristophanes' play "The Birds".
 
Alexey Sklyarenko
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