LITTLE ONES AT HOME. 23

 

BIRDSNEST.

A little bird built a warm nest in a tree,
And laid some blue eggs in it, one, two, and three,
And then very glad and delighted was she.

And after a while, but how long I can’t tell,

The little ones crept, one by one, from the shell,

And their mother was pleased, for she loved
them all well.

She spread her soft wings o’er them all the day
long

To warm them and guard them, her love was
so strong ;

And her mate sat beside her, and sung her a song.

One day the young birds were all crying for food,

So off flew their mother away from her brood ;

And up came some boys who were wicked and
rude.

They pulled the warm nest down away from
the tree,

The little ones cried, but they could not get free ;

So at last they all died away, one, two, and three.

When back to the nest the poor mother did fly,
Oh, then she set up a most piteous cry ;

And she mourned a long while, then lay alee
to die.

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