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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355254" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sparrow And The Hen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A sparrow, when sparrows like parrots could speak,<br>Addressed an old hen who could talk like a jay:<br>Said he, 'It's unjust that we sparrows must seek<br>Our food, when your family's fed every day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Were you like the peacock, that elegant bird,<br>The sight of whose plumage her master may please,<br>I then should not wonder that you are preferred<br>To the yard, where in affluence you live at your ease.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I affect no great style, am not costly in feathers,<br>A good honest brown I find most to my liking,<br>It always looks neat, and is fit for all weathers,<br>But I think your grey mixture is not very striking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'We know that the bird from the isles of Canary<br>Is fed, foreign airs to sing in a fine cage;<br>But your note from a cackle so seldom does vary,<br>The fancy of man it cannot much engage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My chirp to a song sure approaches much nearer,<br>Nay the nightingale tells me I sing not amiss;<br>If voice were in question I ought to be dearer;<br>But the owl he assures me there's nothing in this.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Nor is it your proneness to domestication,<br>For he dwells in man's barn, and I build in man's thatch,<br>As we say to each other-but, to our vexation,<br>O'er your safety alone man keeps diligent watch.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Have you e'er learned to read?' said the hen to the sparrow,<br>'No, madam,' he answered, 'I can't say I have.'<br>'Then that is the reason your sight is so narrow,'<br>The old hen replied, with a look very grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Mrs. Glasse in a Treatise-I wish you could read-<br>Our importance has shown, and has proved to us why<br>Man shields us and feeds us: of us he has need<br>Even before we are born, even after we die.'</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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