�In reference to her Children^ 23. yiine, 1656.* [245]
T Had eight birds hatcht in one neft,
-^ Four Cocks there were, and Hens the reft,
I nurrt them up with pain and care,
Nor coft, nor labour did I Ipare,
Till at the laft they felt their wing.
Mounted the Trees, and learn'd to fing;
Chief of the Brood then took his flight.
To Regions far, and left me quite: f
My mournful chirps I after fend,
Till he return, or I do end.
Leave not thy neft, thy Dam and Sire,
Fly back and fing amidft this Quire.
My fecond bird did take her flight,
And with her mate flew out of fight;
Southward they both their courfe did bend,
And Seafons twain they there did fpend.*
Till after blown by Southern gales,
They Norward fteer d with filled fayles.
- This date is clearly wrong, as events are referred to in the course of
the poem which took place more than a year later. It is probably a mis- print for 1658.
t Samuel, who sailed for England Nov. 6, 1657 (see page 24), and re- turned home July 17, 1661 (see page 28).
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