Two Pigeons
I had two pigeons bright and gay,
They flew from me the other day.
What was the reason they did go?
I cannot tell, for I do not know.
Illustration by Blanche Fisher Wright
Two Pigeons shows up in Victorian nursery-rhyme collections as a tiny four-line verse. It doesn’t carry a full story — just a quiet moment of loss.
Many early collections mention it alongside other “fragment rhymes,” little pieces of folk speech that would have been chanted or sung by children while watching real pigeons in courtyards or market squares. Pigeons were common household birds; families often kept them for eggs or as message carriers. Seeing pigeons fly off wasn’t unusual, so this verse likely came from everyday life rather than a made-up fable.
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