<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428674" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>St. Francis and the Birds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little sisters, the birds: <br>We must praise God, you and I­ <br>You, with songs that fill the sky, <br>I, with halting words. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All things tell His praise,<br>Woods and waters thereof sing, <br>Summer, Winter, Autumn, Spring, <br>And the night and days. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, and cold and heat,<br>And the sun and stars and moon,<br>Sea with her monotonous tune,<br>Rain and hail and sleet, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the winds of heaven,<br>And the solemn hills of blue,<br>And the brown earth and the dew,<br>And the thunder even, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the flowers' sweet breath. <br>All things make one glorious voice;<br>Life with fleeting pains and joys,<br>And our brother, Death. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little flowers of air, <br>With your feathers soft and sleek, <br>And your bright brown eyes and meek, <br>He hath made you fair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He hath taught to you <br>Skill to weave in tree and thatch <br>Nests where happy mothers hatch <br>Speckled eggs of blue. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And hath children given: <br>When the soft heads overbrim <br>The brown nests, then thank ye Him <br>In the clouds of heaven. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Also in your lives <br>Live His laws Who loveth you. <br>Husbands, be ye kind and true; <br>Be home-keeping, wives: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love not gossiping; <br>Stay at home and keep the nest; <br>Fly not here and there in quest <br>Of the newest thing. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Live as brethren live: <br>Love be in each heart and mouth; <br>Be not envious, be not wroth, <br>Be not slow to give. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When ye build the nest, <br>Quarrel not o'er straw or wool; <br>He who hath be bountiful <br>To the neediest. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be not puffed nor vain <br>Of your beauty or your worth, <br>Of your children or your birth, <br>Or the praise ye gain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eat not greedily: <br>Sometimes for sweet mercy's sake, <br>Worm or insect spare to take; <br>Let it crawl or fly. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">See ye sing not near <br>To our church on holy day, <br>Lest the human-folk should stray <br>From their prayers to hear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now depart in peace: <br>In God's name I bless each one;<br>May your days be long i' the sun <br>And your joys increase. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And remember me, <br>Your poor brother Francis, who <br>Loves you and gives thanks to you <br>For this courtesy. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes when ye sing, <br>Name my name, that He may take <br>Pity for the dear song's sake <br>On my shortcoming.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Tynan">Katharine Tynan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428674" data-title="St. Francis and the Birds de Katharine Tynan" data-description="Little sisters, the birds: We must praise God, you and I­ You, with songs that fill the sky, I, with halting words. All things tell His praise, Woods and waters thereof sing, Summer, Winter, Autumn, Spring, And the night and days. Yea, a..."></div> </div> </div>

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