Beloved of children, bards and spring,O birds, your prefect virtues bring,–Your song, your forms, your rhythmic flight,Your manners for the heart’s delight;Nestle in hedge, or barn, or roof;Here weave your chamber weather-proof.Forgive our harms and condescendTo man, as to a lubber friend,And, generous, teach his awkward raceCourage and probity and grace!–Ralph Waldo Emerson, Birds, 1867I … Continue reading Robin on nest