The Kuliawan

The kuliawan shows us what to do when we do our duty. "Be happy about it!" he sings. Do you know his song?

What a rapturous jollity
The kuliawan's life must be
As he chirps above the flowers
Of the fresh green vine-made bowers,
Kuliawan! Kuliawan! Kuliawan!

There he listen; on they run'
When at last their lay is done.
Merrily does he reply
With his loud, melodious cry,
"Kuliawan! Kuliawan! Kuliawan!"

Gay and wild he takes to flight,
Pours he out from his small throat
His resounding treble note,
"Kuliawan! Kuliawan! Kuliawan!"

Leopoldo D. Uichando

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