The Owl and the Nightingale Nightingale Replies Part 75 But you, you starveling! Stinking Spook! You cannot find a single nook Or Hollow log to cower in Secure from foes wholl pinch your skin For boy and girl, master and groom Conspire to bring about your doom When you sit still, they pouch up stones And clods to pelt your ugly bones And then let fly until youre battered Off your perch, your body shattered And if youre toppled off or shot The first good use can then be got From you, for, hoist upon a rod Your bag shaped body, foul and odd Your ghastly neck, most surely scare From cornfields birds who wander there Youre useless, full of life and blood But as a scarecrow, pretty good For sparrow, goldfinch, rook and crow Will never venture where they know The seeds new sown if on that land Your carcase dangles close at hand Where trees put forth their blossoms in spring And young seeds come to burgeoning No bird will dare to pluck them if Youre hanging overhead and stiff Alive, you fill mankind with dread Its just the same same when you are dead
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 19:20:27 +0000
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