<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576060" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dunnocks Nest</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A memory from the past I still recall<br>In the box hedge by the old garden wall<br>I saw two male dunnocks and a hen<br>Fly out of hedge and then with food fly in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I heard their little nestlings for food cry<br>And I with the curiosity of a boy<br>Peered in the hedge a moss built cup shaped nest I see<br>With pink skinned nestlings in it I counted three.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the ways of Nature I was young and green<br>And I marvelled at the wonder I had seen<br>Three blind and pink skinned nestlings the shy dunnock's brood<br>Thought I too was a carer with some food.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With their tiny mouths wide open for food they did plead<br>And when I did not satisfy their greed<br>They slumped back in their nest as in a heap<br>And within a few minutes were asleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It must have been close to fifty years ago<br>Yet of Nature little I still seem to know<br>But such a precious memory bound to stay<br>With me until the reaper has his way.</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=576060" data-title="The Dunnocks Nest de Francis Duggan" data-description="A memory from the past I still recall In the box hedge by the old garden wall I saw two male dunnocks and a hen Fly out of hedge and then with food fly in. I heard their little nestlings for food cry And I with the curiosity of a boy Peered in th..."></div> </div> </div>

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