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Nests

Nests are wonderful things . . .
The rook's high house that swings
Daring the winds of March,
The loose-built home the dove
The neat mud ball that clings
Close to the sheltering eaves
The friendly martins love:
Nests that birds great and small
Fashion of grass and leaves,
Lichen and moss and wool . . .
Nests are most wonderful.

Notes

From ALL THE OTHER CHILDREN, by Cicely Fox Smith, published by Methuen & Co., London, UK, © 1933, p. 42.

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