Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LITTLE BLUE EGG, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY


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First Line: One day we found a little nest
Last Line: I can't see why, can you?
Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Eggs


ONE day we found a little nest
With one blue egg, so small
We had to lift it out to see
If 'twas an egg at all
Or just a bit of bluest sky
Dropped in there by mistake—
We didn't hold it tight, of course,
For tightness makes eggs break.

And all the time, the mother bird
Made such a dreadful fuss—
'Twas just as if she couldn't trust
Her nice blue egg with us!
And though we put it back at once
And Ann said, "Sorry", too,
That bird kept right on scolding us—
I can't see why, can you?





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