<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537836" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sparrows Self-Domesticated In Trinity College, Cambridge</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">None ever shared the social feast,<br>Or as an inmate or a guest,<br>Beneath the celebrated dome<br>Where once Sir Isaac had his home,<br>Who saw not (and with some delight<br>Perhaps he view’d the novel sight)<br>How numerous, at the tables there,<br>The sparrows beg their daily fare.<br>For there, in every nook and cell<br>Where such a family may dwell,<br>Sure as the vernal season comes<br>Their nest they weave in hope of crumbs,<br>Which kindly given, may serve with food<br>Convenient their unfeather’d brood;<br>And oft as with its summons clear<br>The warning bell salutes their ear,<br>Sagacious listeners to the sound,<br>They flock from all the fields around;<br>To reach the hospitable hall,<br>None more attentive to the call.<br>Arrived, the pensionary band,<br>Hopping and chirping, close at hand,<br>Solicit what they soon receive:<br>The sprinkled, plenteous donative.<br>Thus is a multitude, though large,<br>Supported at a trivial charge;<br>A single doit would overpay<br>The expenditure of every day,<br>And who can grudge so small a grace<br>To suppliants, natives of the place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537836" data-title="Sparrows Self-Domesticated In Trinity College, Cambridge de William Cowper" data-description="None ever shared the social feast, Or as an inmate or a guest, Beneath the celebrated dome Where once Sir Isaac had his home, Who saw not (and with some delight Perhaps he view’d the novel sight) How numerous, at the tables there, The sparrows b..."></div> </div> </div>

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