Call for the Robin Redbreast and the Wren



This poem was written by John Webster in the early 1600s, and talks of how the Robin and Wren are found in shady areas - areas where lonely men might have fallen.

Call for the Robin Redbreast and the Wren,
Since o'er shady groves they hover,
And with leaves and flowers do cover
The friendless bodies of unburied men.
Call unto his funeral Dole
The Ante, the field-mouse, and the mole
To rear him hillocks, that shall keep him warm,
And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm,
But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,
For with his nails he'll dig them up again.

--John Webster

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