human
Please generate a brief description of a melancholy scene outside a town bridge with stone pelicans and railings.
assistant
High above the waters of the canal, stone pelicans march in neat rows along the top of the railings. A few gaze upward at the sky, as though wishing to rejoin their living companions, while others gaze longingly at the canal. Many are marred, scratched by carts from uncaring delivery folk or rocks from vandalistic children.