"The Magpies" is the most famous poem by New Zealand poet Denis Glover (1912–1980).
The poem was first published in Glover's 1964 anthology Enter Without Knocking.
Over the course of six short stanzas, the life of a farming couple from young man and wife through to their death of old age is recounted, each verse finishing with the couplet: except for the last verse, in which the last word is "say".
The intention of the poem is to indicate the passage of time and yet the timelessness of nature.
The phrase imitating the call of the Australian magpie is one of the most well-known lines in New Zealand poetry.