Christina Georgina Rossetti

5 December 1803 - 29 December 1870 / London

A White Hen Sitting

A white hen sitting
On white eggs three:
Next, three speckled chickens
As plump as plump can be.
An owl, and a hawk,
And a bat come to see:
But chicks beneath their mother's wing
Squat safe as safe can be.
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