David Lahm wrote:
>Sweet Bird" always reminded me of the phrase "Sweet >Bird of Youth,"
which was the title of a Tennessee >Williams play in the 50s but
which, I suspect,
>he was adapting from a much older source.
The English poet John Milton also wrote of a "sweet bird"! I came
across these lines recently:
"Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, most musical, most
melancholy." (Il Penseroso)
John (in Sydney).
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