====== 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