Robin comes with early spring,
Dressed up in his very best;
Very pretty is his suit--
Brownish coat and reddish vest.
Robin takes my cherry tree
For his very, very own;
Never asking if he may--
There he makes his dainty home.
Robin eats my cherries, too,
In an open, shameless way;
Feeds his wife and babies three--
Giving only songs for pay.
Bolder thief than robin is
Would be hard, indeed, to find;
But he sings so sweet a tune
That I really do not mind!
"Cheer up! Cheer up!" Robin sings;
"Cheer up! Cheer up!" all day long;
Shine or shower, all the same,
"Cheer up! Cheer up!" is his song.
Eating, singing, Robin lives
There within my cherry tree;
When I call him "robber!" "thief!"
Back he flings a song to me!
"May I have some cherries, please?"
Robin never thinks to say;
Yet, who has the heart--have you?
Saucy Rob to drive away?
--_Sarah E. Sprague._
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