The Sparrows

i Outside my garret wimlow there's a roof. And there the Uvely Bparrows lovc to como I ín wintry days, eacrer to set a erumb. i Though feathered warm, in brown and gray, not proof j Are they ■gainst hun.eer. From a ledge aloof They tiurry down, alert and frolicsome. And tlien again they"re sober eyed and glum, Anxious ihat I should give for tlieir behoof. They are abused by some, I frcely own And wlu-n I save food 1 have seen them flare Away awhlte, as if they had a toar Of nnezpeoted liarm, bnt ne'er a stone Would I throw :it these gossipa of the air That the dull -,veathcr flllswith chaltycheer.