Mama Never Forgets Her Birds

Emily Dickinson

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Mama never forgets her birds,
Though in another tree-
She looks down just as often
And just as tenderly
As when her little mortal nest
With cunning care she wove-
If either of her “sparrows fall,”
She “notices,” above.

(C) Emily Dickinson
01/01/2000

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