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A White Hen

Christina Rossetti

A white hen sitting
On white eggs three:
Next, three speckled chickens
As plump as plump can be.

An owl, and a hawk,
And a bat come to see:
But chicks beneath their mother's wing
Squat safe as safe can be.

(C) Christina Rossetti
01/01/2000


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