Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, KINDNESS TO ANIMALS, by ANONYMOUS


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KINDNESS TO ANIMALS, by                    
First Line: "little children, never give"
Last Line: Nor do these gentle creatures wrong
Subject(s): Animal Rights;mnemonics; Animal Abuse;vivisection


Little children, never give
Pain to things that feel and live:
Let the gentle robin come
For the crumbs you save at home, --
As his meat you throw along
He'll repay you with a song;
Never hurt the timid hare
Peeping from her green grass lair,
Let her come and sport and play
On the lawn at close of day;
The little lark goes soaring high
To the bright windows of the sky,
Singing as if 'twere always spring,
And fluttering on an untired wing, --
Oh! let him sing his happy song,
Nor do these gentle creatures wrong.






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