Does "the old folks" refer back to "cormorants"?

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fir and pine by the old fane keep cormorants,
Till solstice feast days stir the old folks out:
With Kongming's sanctum always right next door,
In sacred union liege and man share the rites of worship.

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@oristarA,

Cormorants are birds. Fir and Pine are types of trees. Old folks are just old people. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year.

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@engineer,

Thank you Engineer.
I guessed that in the kingdom of animals, especially in an artistic description, "folks" might be used to describe neighbors: a rhetorical device for personification.

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