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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355221" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Boy And The Skylark</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A FABLE.<br>'A wicked action fear to do,<br>When you are by yourself; for though<br>You think you can conceal it,<br>A little bird that's in the air<br>The hidden trespass shall declare,<br>And openly reveal it.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Richard this saying oft had heard,<br>Until the sight of any bird<br>Would set his heart a-quaking;<br>He saw a host of wingëd spies<br>For ever o'er him in the skies,<br>Note of his actions taking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>This pious precept, while it stood<br>In his remembrance, kept him good<br>When nobody was by him;<br>For though no human eye was near,<br>Yet Richard still did wisely fear<br>The little bird should spy him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But best resolves will sometimes sleep;<br>Poor frailty will not always keep<br>From that which is forbidden;<br>And Richard, one day, left alone,<br>Laid hands on something not his own,<br>And hoped the theft was hidden.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>His conscience slept a day or two,<br>As it is very apt to do<br>When we with pains suppress it:<br>And though at times a slight remorse<br>Would raise a pang, it had not force<br>To make him yet confess it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When on a day, as he abroad<br>Walked by his mother, in their road<br>He heard a skylark singing;<br>Smit with the sound, a flood of tears<br>Proclaimed the superstitious fears<br>His inmost bosom wringing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>His mother, wondering, saw him cry,<br>And fondly asked the reason why;<br>Then Richard made confession,<br>And said, he feared the little bird<br>He singing in the air had heard<br>Was telling his transgression.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The words which Richard spoke below,<br>As sounds by nature upwards go,<br>Were to the skylark carried;<br>The airy traveller with surprise<br>To hear his sayings, in the skies<br>On his mid journey tarried.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>His anger then the bird exprest:<br>'Sure, since the day I left the nest,<br>I ne'er heard folly uttered<br>So fit to move a skylark's mirth,<br>As what this little son of earth<br>Hath in his grossness muttered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Dull fool! to think we sons of air<br>On man's low actions waste a care,<br>His virtues or his vices;<br>Or soaring on the summer gales,<br>That we should stoop to carry tales<br>Of him or his devices!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Our songs are all of the delights<br>We find in our wild airy flights,<br>And heavenly exaltation;<br>The earth you mortals have at heart<br>Is all too gross to have a part<br>In skylark's conversation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Unless it be in what green field<br>Or meadow we our nest may build,<br>Midst flowering broom, or heather;<br>From whence our new-fledged offspring may<br>With least obstruction wing their way<br>Up to the walks of ether.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Mistaken fool! man needs not us<br>His secret merits to discuss,<br>Or spy out his transgression;<br>When once he feels his conscience stirred,<br>That voice within him is the bird <br>That moves him to confession.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</a><div class=q>
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'A wicked action fear to do,
When you are by yourself; for though
You think you can conceal it,
A little bird that's in the air
The hidden trespass shall declare,
And openly reveal it.'


Richard this saying oft had heard,
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