crumbs

And the hills of silken grass like to cushions to the view,

Where we threw the pismire crumbs when we'd nothing else to do,

All levelled like a desert by the never weary plough,

The pismires too their tip-tops yearly climb

To lay their eggs and hunt the shepherd's crumbs,

Never disturbed save when for summer thyme

Struts with the hens, and seems to like some best,

Then crows, and looks about for little crumbs,

Swept out by little folks an hour ago;

or the Excise--besides another at Lord Lonsdale's table, where this

poetical charlatan and political parasite licks up the crumbs with a

hardened alacrity; the converted Jacobin having long subsided into the

When here again thy pilgrim comes,

He shall bring store of seeds and crumbs.

Doubt not, so long as earth has bread,

Painful or easy!

Even to the crumbs I'd fain eat up the feast,

Ay, nor feel queasy."

The sturdy seedling with arched body comes

Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

I love you like the little bird

That picks up crumbs around the door."