<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577735" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Pheasant's Nest</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a warm evening on the second day of July<br>As I walked through the high grass upwards a bird did fly<br>A bantam sized mottled brown bird with low and short quick flight<br>Beyond the hedge she disappeared from sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There at my feet amongst the high grass as I looked down<br>In her simple nest her ten eggs of greeny brown<br>I dared not touch them on them only gazed<br>At such a thing of Natural beauty quite amazed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By chance alone the hen pheasant's nest I'd found<br>Since I had walked the fields for miles around<br>And only once see a pheasant with her young they flew away<br>And amongst the high grass hidden they did stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A school friend of mine once raised pheasants in an outdoor cage<br>And he sold them to a gun club at their adult stage<br>The gun club in late September set them free<br>At the time of wild pheasants a scarcity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I still recall that evening in July<br>The mottled pheasant from her nest did fly<br>And I was eight and of Nature little did know<br>And that was more than fifty years ago.</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=577735" data-title="The Pheasant's Nest de Francis Duggan" data-description="On a warm evening on the second day of July As I walked through the high grass upwards a bird did fly A bantam sized mottled brown bird with low and short quick flight Beyond the hedge she disappeared from sight. There at my feet amongst the high..."></div> </div> </div>

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