Letter Vii. The Tame Duck's Reply. (the Bird And Insects' Post-office.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
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| I confess I did not at all expect to hear from you for I always believed you to be one of those thoughtless young creatures which are to be found in other stations of life as well as in yours and mine who as soon as they get fledged and able to get abroad care no more for their parents and those who brought them up than I care for a shower of rain However you have escaped danger twice and you have reason to congratulate yourself I have been sitting here upon ten eggs for three weeks past and of course have another week to be confined but then the thoughts of the pleasure I shall have in hatching and guiding my young ones to the water is ample payment for all my pains They will look so clean and so delighted and will do as they are bid by the smallest quack that I can utter that I must be a bad mother indeed if I am not proud of them Perhaps you will wonder when I tell you that we have a creature here fledged indeed which is called a hen a strange cackling flying useless noisy silly creature which is as much afraid of water as you are of your decoy I have often known one of these birds to hatch nine or ten of my eggs and then if you wanted to ridicule the lifted foot of conceit and the dignity of assumed importance you should see her lead her young or more properly see the young lead her to the nearest water they can find In they go and she begins to call and scold and run round the edge to save them from drowning Now what fools these hens must be compared to us ducks at least I for one am determined to think so I have seen this same hen with the brood about her scratching in our farmyard with all her might when not considering who was behind her or who under her feathers she has tricked away one little yellow duck with one of her claws and another with the other till I wished I had her in a pond I would have given her a good sousing depend upon it But really cousin don't you think that this way of contradicting our natures and propensities is very wrong Suppose for instance I should sit upon a dozen of that silly creature's eggs which I mentioned above for I will never consent to have them matched with us I should then to be sure have a week's holiday as they sit but three weeks but what should I bring to light a parcel of little useless tip toed cowardly things that would not follow me into the pond I cannot bear to think of it I have written you a long letter and can think of no more but Quack quack quack and farewell | B |
Robert Bloomfield
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Letter Vii. The Tame Duck's Reply. (the Bird And Insects' Post-office.) is a poem by Robert Bloomfield. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.