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प्रश्न
Look for some other poem on a bird or a tree in English or any other language.
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उत्तर
1. ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ by John Keats
2. ‘Yew Trees’ by William Wordsworth
3. ‘To the Cuckoo’ by William Wordsworth
4. ‘To a Skylark’ by P. B. Shelley
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