<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578477" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Stickleback</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Somethings from childhood till old age remain<br>And old Joe returns to his youth again<br>By stream between the hedgerow and the old dirt track<br>He often stood and watched the stickleback.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stickleback a fish of minnow size<br>Reddish under the gills and bulging eyes<br>In Spring and Summer in dykes and streams they breed<br>When male for the female makes a nest of weeds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in the nest their eggs the females laid<br>The only part in parenting they played<br>They left the male to the parenting role<br>To guard their young and his boundaries to patrol.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will be seventy on my next birthday<br>Says old Joe with the hair of silver gray<br>And though somethings from our childhood with us stay<br>As years go by the memories fade away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in my boyhood years in distant Liverpool<br>On Spring evenings on my way home from school<br>By stream between the hedgerow and dirt track<br>I often stood and watched the stickleback.</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=578477" data-title="The Stickleback de Francis Duggan" data-description="Somethings from childhood till old age remain And old Joe returns to his youth again By stream between the hedgerow and the old dirt track He often stood and watched the stickleback. The stickleback a fish of minnow size Reddish under the gills a..."></div> </div> </div>

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