<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529058" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Meadow Mouse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a shoe box stuffed in an old nylon stocking<br>Sleeps the baby mouse I found in the meadow,<br>Where he trembled and shook beneath a stick<br>Till I caught him up by the tail and brought him in,<br>Cradled in my hand,<br>A little quaker, the whole body of him trembling,<br>His absurd whiskers sticking out like a cartoon-mouse,<br>His feet like small leaves,<br>Little lizard-feet,<br>Whitish and spread wide when he tried to struggle away,<br>Wriggling like a minuscule puppy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now he's eaten his three kinds of cheese and drunk from his<br>bottle-cap watering-trough--<br>So much he just lies in one corner,<br>His tail curled under him, his belly big<br>As his head; his bat-like ears<br>Twitching, tilting toward the least sound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do I imagine he no longer trembles<br>When I come close to him?<br>He seems no longer to tremble.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But this morning the shoe-box house on the back porch is empty.<br>Where has he gone, my meadow mouse,<br>My thumb of a child that nuzzled in my palm? --<br>To run under the hawk's wing,<br>Under the eye of the great owl watching from the elm-tree,<br>To live by courtesy of the shrike, the snake, the tom-cat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think of the nestling fallen into the deep grass,<br>The turtle gasping in the dusty rubble of the highway,<br>The paralytic stunned in the tub, and the water rising,--<br>All things innocent, hapless, forsaken.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Theodore+Roethke">Theodore Roethke</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=529058" data-title="The Meadow Mouse de Theodore Roethke" data-description="1 In a shoe box stuffed in an old nylon stocking Sleeps the baby mouse I found in the meadow, Where he trembled and shook beneath a stick Till I caught him up by the tail and brought him in, Cradled in my hand, A little quaker, the whole body of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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