Celia Thaxter mused on God’s care of man and bird:

“For are we not God’s children both,

Thou, little Sandpiper, and I?”

Serenity and joy came to Edna Dean Proctor:

“My heart beside the bluebird, sings

And folds serene its weary wings.”

Edward Rowland Sill voiced human need in his poem:

SPRING TWILIGHT

“Surely thus to sing, Robin,

Thou must have in sight,