AY, screen thy favourite dove, fair child, <br />Ay, screen it if you may,-- <br />Yet I misdoubt thy trembling hand <br />Will scare the hawk away. <br /> <br />That dove will die, that child will weep,-- <br />Is this their destinie? <br />Ever amid the sweets of life <br />Some evil thing must be. <br /> <br />Ay, moralize,--is it not thus <br />We've mourn'd our hope and love? <br />Alas! there's tears for every eye, <br />A hawk for every dove!<br /><br />Letitia Elizabeth Landon<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-child-screening-a-dove-from-a-hawk-by-stewardson/
