What melting sentiments of kindly care
Do the new parents’ seize; away they fly
Affectionate, and undesiring bear
The most delicious morsel to their young,
Which equally distributed, again
The search begins.”
And when the little birds are able to fly, the poet thus proceeds,—
“But now the feather’d youth their former bounds
Ardent, disdain, and weighing oft their wings
Demand the free possession of the sky: