Birds in their little nests agree
‘I have known more than one magpie opportunistically nick a beakful of fleece off a living sheep’
How fresh the air the birds how busy now In every walk if I but peep I find Nests newly made or finished all and lined With hair and thistle down and in the bough Of little hawthorn huddled up in green The leaves still thickening as the spring gets age The Pinks’ [chaffinches’] quite round and snug and closely laid And linnets of materials are loose and rough…
From ‘Birds Nests’ by John Clare
MIZZLY morning. Half
