THE HOUSE-SPARROW. a 
To see the hectoring, lording, and commotion 
For ever going on in earth or ocean! 
The conquerors fierce; those thievish chaps, the 
lawyers, 
That. chirp and gabble, wheedle and bamboozle ; 
The jackdaw-race of pleaders, the pert cawyers 
In their grey wigs, the sober rooks that puzzle : 
Land-sharks, and pirates both of sea and land; 
Your cormorants acting the sedate and grand : 
The singers, and the Paganinis, 
Who filch your fruit, and pocket up your 
guineas ; 
The tomtit, mime ;—the wren, small poet: 
The silly creatures that by scores 
Nurse cuckoo-imps, that out of doors 
Have turned their children, and they never 
know it! 
I walk in cities, “mong the human herds, 
And then I think of birds: 
I walk in woods among the birds, and then 
I think of men! 
*Tis quite impossible in one or other 
To walk and see not—-man and bird are brother. 
