AY, screen thy favourite dove, fair child,
Ay, screen it if you may,--
Yet I misdoubt thy trembling hand
Will scare the hawk away.
That dove will die, that child will weep,--
Is this their destinie?
Ever amid the sweets of life
Some evil thing must be.
Ay, moralize,--is it not thus
We've mourn'd our hope and love?
Alas! there's tears for every eye,
A hawk for every dove!
A Child Screening A Dove From A Hawk. By Stewardson
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Poem topics: I love you, away, evil, hope, life, mourn, favourite, child, love, I miss you, screen, dove, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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