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A FABLE	A
'A wicked action fear to do	B
When you are by yourself for though	C
You think you can conceal it	D
A little bird that's in the air	E
The hidden trespass shall declare	E
And openly reveal it '	F
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Richard this saying oft had heard	G
Until the sight of any bird	G
Would set his heart a quaking	H
He saw a host of wing d spies	I
For ever o'er him in the skies	I
Note of his actions taking	H
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This pious precept while it stood	J
In his remembrance kept him good	J
When nobody was by him	K
For though no human eye was near	L
Yet Richard still did wisely fear	L
The little bird should spy him	K
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But best resolves will sometimes sleep	M
Poor frailty will not always keep	M
From that which is forbidden	N
And Richard one day left alone	O
Laid hands on something not his own	O
And hoped the theft was hidden	N
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His conscience slept a day or two	B
As it is very apt to do	B
When we with pains suppress it	D
And though at times a slight remorse	P
Would raise a pang it had not force	P
To make him yet confess it	D
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When on a day as he abroad	Q
Walked by his mother in their road	R
He heard a skylark singing	H
Smit with the sound a flood of tears	S
Proclaimed the superstitious fears	T
His inmost bosom wringing	H
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His mother wondering saw him cry	U
And fondly asked the reason why	U
Then Richard made confession	N
And said he feared the little bird	G
He singing in the air had heard	G
Was telling his transgression	N
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The words which Richard spoke below	C
As sounds by nature upwards go	C
Were to the skylark carried	V
The airy traveller with surprise	I
To hear his sayings in the skies	I
On his mid journey tarried	V
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His anger then the bird exprest	V
'Sure since the day I left the nest	V
I ne'er heard folly uttered	V
So fit to move a skylark's mirth	W
As what this little son of earth	W
Hath in his grossness muttered	V
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'Dull fool to think we sons of air	E
On man's low actions waste a care	E
His virtues or his vices	X
Or soaring on the summer gales	Y
That we should stoop to carry tales	Y
Of him or his devices	X
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'Our songs are all of the delights	Z
We find in our wild airy flights	Z
And heavenly exaltation	N
The earth you mortals have at heart	V
Is all too gross to have a part	V
In skylark's conversation	N
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'Unless it be in what green field	V
Or meadow we our nest may build	V
Midst flowering broom or heather	A2
From whence our new fledged offspring may	B2
With least obstruction wing their way	B2
Up to the walks of ether	A2
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'Mistaken fool man needs not us	C2
His secret merits to discuss	C2
Or spy out his transgression	N
When once he feels his conscience stirred	V
That voice within him is the bird	V
That moves him to confession '	-

Charles Lamb

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