Kindness to Animals
Reading edition
Little children, never give Pain to things that feel and live. Let the gentle robin come For the crumbs you save at home. As his meat you throw along, He’ll repay you with a song. Never hurt the timid hare, Peeping from her green grass lair; Let her come and sport and play On the lawn at close of day. The little lark goes soaring high To the bright windows of the sky, Singing as if ’twere always spring And fluttering on an untired wing. Oh! let him sing his happy song, Nor do these gentle creatures wrong.
