Attic maid! with honey fed, <br />Bear'st thou to thy callow brood <br />Yonder locust from the mead, <br />Destined their delicious food? <br /> <br />Ye have kindred voices clear, <br />Ye alike unfold the wing, <br />Migrate hither, sojourn here, <br />Both attendant on the spring! <br /> <br />Ah, for pity drop the prize; <br />Let it not with truth be said <br />That a songster gasps and dies, <br />That a songster may be fed.<br /><br />William Cowper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-the-swallow-from-the-greek/
