The loveliest sight on the coast I saw,
Was little Ann Gray with her pet macaw,
A trustful bird in the hands of Ann,
But woe to the stranger, or hostile man.
Though upside down, ’twas the very thing,
When under the rule of his lover’s wing;
Some stunts to do, that he’d never tried,
But that’s all right, when his friend is guide.
[Illustration: Snapped by the Author at the Home of Paul R. Gray on
Belle Isle, Miami, Fla., March 17, 1920.]
So every creature, bird and beast,
From animal great to the very least,
Will some day see with different eyes,
When men grow kind and good and wise.
The lion fierce shall fondle the lamb,
When men shall follow the great I Am,
And wolf shall play with the sportive kid,
When earth of hate and murder is rid—
When the great and small shall learn to be mild,
In the kingdom of Christ and a little child.