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We meant to be very kind	A
But if ever we find	A
Another soft grey green moss coated feather lined nest in a hedge	B
We have taken a pledge	B
Susan Jemmy and I with remorseful tears at this very minute	C
That if there are eggs or little birds in it	D
Robin or wren thrush chaffinch or linnet	D
We'll leave them there	E
To their mother's care	E
There were three of us Kate and Susan and Jem	F
And three of them	F
I don't know their names for they couldn't speak	G
Except with a little imperative squeak	G
Exactly like Poll	H
Susan's squeaking doll	I
But squeaking dolls will lie on the shelves	J
For years and never squeak of themselves	J
The reason we like little birds so much better than toys	K
Is because they are really alive and know how to make a noise	K
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There were three of us and three of them	F
Kate that is I and Susan and Jem	F
Our mother was busy making a pie	L
And theirs we think was up in the sky	L
But for all Susan Jemmy or I can tell	M
She may have been getting their dinner as well	M
They were left to themselves and so were we	N
In a nest in the hedge by the willow tree	N
And when we caught sight of three red little fluff tufted hazel eyed	O
open mouthed pink throated heads we all shouted for glee	N
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The way we really did wrong was this	P
We took them for Mother to kiss	P
And she told us to put them back	Q
Whilst out on the weeping willow their mother was crying Alack	Q
We really heard	R
Both what Mother told us to do and the voice of the mother bird	R
But we three that is Susan and I and Jem	F
Thought we knew better than either of them	F
And in spite of our mother's command and the poor bird's cry	L
We determined to bring up her three little nestlings ourselves on the sly	L
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We each took one	S
It did seem such excellent fun	S
Susan fed hers on milk and bread	T
Jem got wriggling worms for his instead	T
I gave mine meat	U
For you know I thought Poor darling pet why shouldn't it have roast beef to eat	U
But oh dear oh dear oh dear how we cried	O
When in spite of milk and bread and worms and roast beef the little birds died	O
It's a terrible thing to have heart ache	V
I thought mine would break	V
As I heard the mother bird's moan	W
And looked at the grey green moss coated feather lined nest she had taken such pains to make	V
And her three little children dead and as cold as stone	W
Mother said and it's sadly true	X
There are some wrong things one can never undo	X
And nothing that we could do or say	Y
Would bring life back to the birds that day	Y
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The bitterest tears that we could weep	Z
Wouldn't wake them out of their stiff cold sleep But then	A2
We Susan and Jem and I mean never to be so selfish and wilful and cruel again	A2
And we three have buried those other three	N
In a soft green moss covered flower lined grave at the foot of the willow tree	N
And all the leaves which its branches shed	T
We think are tears because they are dead	T

Juliana Horatia Ewing

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