<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506892" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Exposed Nest</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You were forever finding some new play.<br>So when I saw you down on hands and knees<br>I the meadow, busy with the new-cut hay,<br>Trying, I thought, to set it up on end,<br>I went to show you how to make it stay,<br>If that was your idea, against the breeze,<br>And, if you asked me, even help pretend<br>To make it root again and grow afresh.<br>But 'twas no make-believe with you today,<br>Nor was the grass itself your real concern,<br>Though I found your hand full of wilted fern,<br>Steel-bright June-grass, and blackening heads of clovers.<br>'Twas a nest full of young birds on the ground<br>The cutter-bar had just gone champing over<br>(Miraculously without tasking flesh)<br>And left defenseless to the heat and light.<br>You wanted to restore them to their right<br>Of something interposed between their sight<br>And too much world at once--could means be found.<br>The way the nest-full every time we stirred<br>Stood up to us as to a mother-bird<br>Whose coming home has been too long deferred,<br>Made me ask would the mother-bird return<br>And care for them in such a change of scene<br>And might out meddling make her more afraid.<br>That was a thing we could not wait to learn.<br>We saw the risk we took in doing good,<br>But dared not spare to do the best we could<br>Though harm should come of it; so built the screen<br>You had begun, and gave them back their shade.<br>All this to prove we cared. Why is there then<br>No more to tell? We turned to other things.<br>I haven't any memory--have you?--<br>Of ever coming to the place again<br>To see if the birds lived the first night through,<br>And so at last to learn to use their wings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Frost">Robert Frost</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=506892" data-title="The Exposed Nest de Robert Frost" data-description="You were forever finding some new play. So when I saw you down on hands and knees I the meadow, busy with the new-cut hay, Trying, I thought, to set it up on end, I went to show you how to make it stay, If that was your idea, against the breeze, A..."></div> </div> </div>

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