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"What a piece of work are birds!" is a phrase from within a monologue by an anonymous contemporary of William Shakespeare.
The speech
What a piece of work are birds! How noble in saturation, how infinite in hue! In spectral absorption and reflection how express and admirable ... the beauty of the air ... the paragon of visual stimuli!
History
An early version was drafted by William Shakespeare in Hamlet:
What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason,
how infinite in faculties, in form and moving,
how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension,
how like a god!
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External links
- What a piece of work is man @ Wikipedia - a phrase within a monologue by Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Hamlet is reflecting, at first admiringly, and then despairingly, on the human condition.