“I don’t care if it isn’t sunny.”

“I don’t care! I don’t care! I don’t!” he said,

And he winked with his eye so cheery,

“For somebody’s left some crumbs of bread,

So my prospects are not all dreary.

“And what’s a cold toe, when I’ve a whole suit

Of the cunningest warm brown feathers?

I don’t care if I haven’t a shoe to my foot,

I’m the bird, sir, for all sorts of weathers.

“I don’t fly away at the first touch of frost,