Birds and flowers, or, Lays and lyrics of rural life (1873)
Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888, Giacomelli, Hector, 1822-1904 · London ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons · leaf 43
I saw him sit and his dinner eat.All under the forest tree— His dinner of chestnut ripe and red,And he ate it heartily. I wish you could have seen him there It did my spirit good.To see the small thing God had made Thus eating- in the wood. ■-^ 36 THE WOOD-MOUSE. I saw that He regardeth them,Those…