. Poetry for children . II A WICKED action fear to do, When you are by yourself; for though You think you can conceal it,A little bird thats in the airThe hidden trespass shall declare And openly reveal it. Richard this saying oft had heard,Until the sight of any bird Would set his heart a-quaking;He saw a host of winged spiesFor ever oer him in the skies, Note of his actions taking. This pious precept, while it stoodIn his remembrance, kept him good When nobody was by him ;For though no human eye was near,Yet Richard still did wisely fear The little bird should spy him. «4. 16 POETRY FOR CHIL
. Poetry for children . II A WICKED action fear to do, When you are by yourself; for though You think you can conceal it,A little bird thats in the airThe hidden trespass shall declare And openly reveal it. Richard this saying oft had heard,Until the sight of any bird Would set his heart a-quaking;He saw a host of winged spiesFor ever oer him in the skies, Note of his actions taking. This pious precept, while it stoodIn his remembrance, kept him good When nobody was by him ;For though no human eye was near,Yet Richard still did wisely fear The little bird should spy him. «4. 16 POETRY FOR CHILDREN But best resolves will sometimes sleep;Poor frailty will not always keep From that which is forbidden;And Richard one day, left alone,Laid hands on something not his own, And hoped the theft was hidden. His conscience slept a day or two,As it is very apt to do, When we with pain suppress it;And though at times a slight remorseWould raise a pang, it had not force To make him yet confess it. When on a day, as he abroad Walkd by his mother, in their road i He heard a skylark singing; > Smit with the sound, a flood of tearsProclaimd the superstitious fears His inmost bosom wringing. His mother, wondering, saw him cry,And fondly askd the reason why ? Then Richard made confession,And said, he feard the little birdHe singing in the air had heard Was telling his transgression. POETRY FOR CHILDREN 17 The words which Richard spoke below,As sounds by nature upwards go, Were to the skylark carried:The airy traveller with surprise,To hear his sayings, in the skies On his
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