Here you will find the Poem A Child Screening A Dove From A Hawk. By Stewardson of poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon
AY, screen thy favourite dove, fair child, Ay, screen it if you may,-- Yet I misdoubt thy trembling hand Will scare the hawk away. That dove will die, that child will weep,-- Is this their destinie? Ever amid the sweets of life Some evil thing must be. Ay, moralize,--is it not thus We've mourn'd our hope and love? Alas! there's tears for every eye, A hawk for every dove!
