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Poor little mite with mottled breast	A
Half fledged and fallen from the nest	A
For whom this world hath just begun	B
Who want to fly yet scarce can run	B
Why open wide your yellow beak	C
Is it for hunger or to speak	C
To tell me that you fain would be	D
Loosed from my hand to liberty	D
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Well you yourself decide your fate	E
But be not too precipitate	E
Which will you have If you agree	D
To quit the lanes and lodge with me	D
I promise you a bed more soft	F
Even than that where you aloft	G
First opened wondering eyes and found	H
A world of green leaves all around	H
When you awake you straight shall see	D
A fresh turf green and velvety	D
Well of clear water sifted seed	I
All things in short that bird can need	I
And gentle beings far more fair	J
Than build on bough or skim through air	J
When all without is wet and bleak	C
Laying against your cage their cheek	C
To make you pipe shall coax and coo	K
And bud their pretty lips at you	K
And when the clammy winter rain	L
Drips from the roof and clouds the pane	L
When windows creak and chimneys roar	M
And beggars wail outside the door	M
And stretch out fingers lank and thin	N
You shall be safely housed within	N
And through the wood fire's flickering glow	O
Watch drifting leaves or driving snow	O
Till Marian pulls the shutters up	P
And you go sleep and I go sup	P
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But now suppose I let you go	O
To rains that beat to winds that blow	O
To heedless chance and prowling foe	O
Mayhap this very day alas	Q
You will be drowned in tangled grass	Q
Or that escaped some slinking stoat	I
May seize and suck your speckled throat	I
Or hawk slow wheeling in the sky	R
Your fluttering feeble wings descry	M
And straightway downward flashing thence	S
Relish and rend your innocence	T
Should you survive and glad and strong	U
Make autumn spring like with your song	U
You will be lured the very first	I
Where netted berries bulge and burst	I
And by their guardian caught alive	V
You may before I can arrive	V
To bid him not be so unsparing	W
Have paid the forfeit of your daring	W
Time too will come there will not be	D
Berry on bush or pod on tree	D
Stripped be the hawthorn bare the holly	D
And all the boughs drip melancholy	D
And you will have to scrape for food	I
Amid a frosty solitude	I
	-
Which shall it be Now quick decide	I
Safety confined or peril wide	I
	-
Then did the little bird reply	R
'Tis true as yet I scarce can fly	R
But oh it is such joy to try	R
Just as you came I was beginning	W
To win my wings exult in winning	W
To feel the promptings of the pinion	B
The dawn of a divine dominion	B
Over the empty air and over	M
Fields of young wheat and breadths of clover	M
Pledge of a power to scale some day	I
My native elm tree's topmost spray	I
And mid the leaves and branches warm	X
Sing far beyond the reach of harm	Y
And shall I barter gift like this	Z
For doled out joy and measured bliss	Z
For a trim couch and dainty fare	M
Forfeit the freedom of the air	M
Shall I exchange for punctual food	I
April's sweet loves and summer's brood	I
The dewy nest 'neath twinkling stars	A2
For crushing roof and cramping bars	A2
No Come what chance or foe that may	I
Menace of death this very day	I
The weasel's clutch the falcon's swoop	B2
What if these kill they do not coop	B2
Autumn's worst ambush winter's rage	C2
Are sweeter than the safest cage ''	-
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Off little mite I let you fly	R
And do as I would be done by	R
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Nature within your heart hath sown	D2
A wisdom wiser than my own	D2
And from your choice I learn to prize	E2
The birth right of unbounded skies	E2
Delightful danger of being free	D
Sweet sense of insecurity	D
The privilege to risk one's all	F2
On being nor captive caged nor thrall	F2
The wish to range the wing to soar	M
Past space behind through space before	M
The ecstasy of unknown flight	I
The doubt the danger the delight	I
To range and roam unchained unvext	I
Nor know what worlds will open next	I
And since Death waits both caged and free	D
To die at least of liberty	D

Alfred Austin

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