The original text -

The wren that rages when I sit
Too close to this mulberry tree
Cannot be told, for all her wit
I hung the gourd she guards from me.

Mike Keith -

The egret fussing in the gloom
Sneers curtly - heh! - to torture me;
That horrid budgie in the room
Now raw, castrated fowl shall be.

Richard Brodie -

Fowl frees herb? Sh! Ere I wait.
Thy song I'll not accommodate!
Throttle gruesome warbling sound,
There! I thrust her at the ground!

Larry Brash -

This bird's a bloody mongrel twit,
For me, she'll ne'er care a shit.
The aggressor, the ungrateful cur,
Motto: we then hit to wound her.

Don P. Fortier -

The most fearsome bird,
Who's such a threat:
It'll force me urgently to run.
I, a shotgun go and get.
With this, her terror be "well done".

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