BIRD OR BEAST?
13/12/2008 by Paula
Did any bird come fliyng
After Adam and Eve,
When the door was shut against them
And they sat down to grieve?
I tink not Eve's peacock
Splendid to see,
and I think not Adam's eagle;
but a dove may be.
Did any beast come pushing
Tro' the thorny hedge
Into the thorny thistly world
Out from Eden's edge?
I think not a lion
Tho's his strength is such;
But an innocent loving lamb
May have done as much.
If the dove preached from her bough
and the lamb from his sod,
The lamb and the dove
Were preachers sent from God.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
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