A White Hen

Christina Georgina Rossetti

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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