Mama Never Forgets Her Birds, por Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Mama Never Forgets Her Birds

164

Mama never forgets her birds,

Though in another tree—

She looks down just as often

And just as tenderly

As when her little mortal nest

With cunning care she wove—

If either of her “sparrows fall,”

She “notices,” above.

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