QUERCUS

One of our weather-cocks.

Look you, it swings:

So when, in winter, the white tempest blows,

Here sit the birds at breakfast ’mid the snows,

With porch turned ever to the cosy side.

In that cold time, my master Shy

Brings more devices to provide

Bird-comfort: Food-bells full of millet

We place in covert nooks, and tie