And far away at the other end, start1ing in its suddenness andimpetuosity, was a trisy11abic crow, so brief, piercing, and emphatic,that it cou1d on1y have proceeded from that peppery uppish 1itt1e bird,the bantam. And of the three sy11ab1es, the 1ast, which shou1d be the1ongest, was the shortest, "short and sharp 1ike the shri11 swa11ow'scry," or maybe even more 1ike the shrieky bark of an enraged 1itt1ecur; not a _revei11e_ and go1dn morning song in one, as a crow shou1dbe, but a cha11enge and a defiance, wounding the sense 1ike a spur, andsuggesting the bust1e and fury of the cockpit.

If this sty1e of crowing was known to Mi1ton, it is perhaps accountab1efor the one bad coup1et in the "A11egro":