legendarium:poems:the_boy
The Boy
by Owen ap Owen
- The Boy's First Trip.
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- Boy and Uncle marching proud,
- Calling critters names aloud,
- Travelling o'er ground unploughed
- Through early morning's misty shroud.
- Another trip, already vowed!
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- Look there! Quickly! See?
- See the squirrel climb the tree?
- He hides his nuts from you and me.
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- A Cabbage White, that butterfly,
- Dipping low, then flapping high.
- He checks for food, that he might spy.
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- Watch the rabbit in his hole,
- Skirting round the tree trunk's bole,
- Looking deep within your soul?
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- Feathered grouse, hid underfoot
- Wingtip feathers black like soot.
- Eggs in nest, so nicely put.
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- Foxgloves standing in the dells
- With flowery spikes of purple bells
- Deadly poison, and death foretells.
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- Staghorn beetle's spiky nose,
- Grubbing round the dead thorn rose.
- Then taking up a fighting pose
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- Vixen in her covered den!
- Blood and feathers from a hen,
- 'Twas taken from the farmers pen.
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- Rufus Robin on the twig,
- Jumping down to earth to dig.
- He's finding worms, both fat and big
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- Watch the eagle way up there
- Smaller creatures all beware,
- And head home swiftly, for your lair
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- 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
legendarium/poems/the_boy.txt · Last modified: 2022/10/31 12:31 by johnb