Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="TO_A_MEADOW_LARK" id="TO_A_MEADOW_LARK"></SPAN>To a Meadow Lark</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig"><span class="letra">A</span>ND when I saw him stamping over<br/></span> <span class="ih">My little patch of shrubs and clover,<br/></span> <span class="i0">His steel bright gun held shoulder high<br/></span> <span class="i0">I scarce could check, a smothered cry.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Because I knew your nest was low<br/></span> <span class="i0">So shuddered when I saw him go.<br/></span> <span class="i0">A gunshot and I scarce could see<br/></span> <span class="i0">You had flown screaming to a tree.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">O little bird with troubled breast,<br/></span> <span class="i0">A miracle has saved your nest.<br/></span> <span class="i0">I’m sorry you were frightened so,<br/></span> <span class="i0">You should not build your nest so low.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_58" id="page_58">{58}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />