XIX.

Out crept a sparrow, this Soul's moving inn,

On whose raw arms stiff feathers now begin,

As children's teeth through gums, to break with pain:

His flesh is jelly yet, and his bones threads;

All a new downy mantle overspreads:

A mouth he opes, which would as much contain

As his late house, and the first hour speaks plain,

And chirps aloud for meat: meat fit for men

His father steals for him, and so feeds then

One that within a month will beat him from his hen.

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