<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Blue Tit's Nest</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some childhood memories with us seem to linger<br>And I recall when I was nine or so<br>Of seeing blue tit fly from hole in standing tree stump<br>One April day more than forty years ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stood on tip toes and tried to look inside the tree stump<br>But all seemed dark in there I needed light<br>I hurried back home for to fetch a flash lamp<br>And what I saw a memorable sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A little nest of moss and hay and lined with feathers<br>And nine pale eggs with freckles brown to red<br>Laid by the little bird with yellow unders<br>Blue wings and tail and tiny blue cap on head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I marvelled at this wondrous sight of Nature<br>How one small bird so many eggs could lay<br>The memory all those years has remained with me<br>And I still can picture what I see today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I still can picture forty five years later<br>Nine speckled eggs in nest of moss and hay<br>Some things from childhood always remain with us<br>And from the memory never fade away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=575523" data-title="The Blue Tit's Nest de Francis Duggan" data-description="Some childhood memories with us seem to linger And I recall when I was nine or so Of seeing blue tit fly from hole in standing tree stump One April day more than forty years ago. I stood on tip toes and tried to look inside the tree stump But all..."></div> </div> </div>

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