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+====== The Boy ======
+<color #c8bfe7>by Owen ap Owen</color>
+  * __The Boy's First Trip__.
+  * -
+  * Boy and Uncle marching proud,
+  * Calling critters names aloud,
+  * Travelling o'er ground unploughed
+  * Through early morning's misty shroud.
+  * Another trip, already vowed!
+  * -
+  * Look there! Quickly! See?
+  * See the squirrel climb the tree?
+  * He hides his nuts from you and me.
+  * -
+  * A Cabbage White, that butterfly,
+  * Dipping low, then flapping high.
+  * He checks for food, that he might spy.
+  * -
+  * Watch the rabbit in his  hole,
+  * Skirting round the tree trunk's bole,
+  * Looking deep within your soul?
+  * -
+  * Feathered grouse, hid underfoot
+  * Wingtip feathers black like soot.
+  * Eggs in nest, so nicely put.
+  * -
+  * Foxgloves standing in the dells
+  * With flowery spikes of purple bells
+  * Deadly poison, and death foretells.
+  * -
+  * Staghorn beetle's spiky nose,
+  * Grubbing round the dead thorn rose.
+  * Then taking up a fighting pose
+  * -
+  * Vixen in her covered den!
+  * Blood and feathers  from a hen,
+  * 'Twas taken from the farmers pen.
+  * -
+  * Rufus Robin on the twig,
+  * Jumping down to earth to dig.
+  * He's finding worms, both fat and big
+  * -
+  * Watch the eagle way up there
+  * Smaller creatures all beware,
+  * And head home swiftly, for your lair
+  * -
+  * Boy and Uncle marching proud,
+  * Calling critters names aloud,
+  * Travelling o'er ground unploughed
+  * Through early morning's misty shroud.
+  * Another trip already vowed!
+The story of a boy's first lessons in Knowledge Nature