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Sleeping on a rocky ridge

Dreaming of the perfect flight

Soaring, soaring, diving fast

Flying for the sake of it

Waking, soon he joins the flock

An unkindness of the land

What now can a raven eat?

He will find something to eat

On this grey and frozen day

Black on white they all descend

Relishing the winter search

Taking wing across their land

"We are feathered all in black

Beak and eye and talon too

First to leave from Noah's Ark

Look and find us far and wide

Living off the waste of man

Finding fat in the decay

We outsmart the lesser birds

We confuse the mammals too

We will even challenge man

His deeds don't escape our stare

We can use tools just like him

We will learn to speak like him

Prestige is no use to us

Leave that to the birds of prey

We banquet on the battlefields

Call us birds of ill omen

We were gifted in the dark

We will bear the hallowed weight

Made to reign, not please the eye

Cognition our treasured skill

This is our blessed birthright

Memory and thought of gods

Guarding monarchs from the tower

Elite of the avians"