Wren

"Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back."

"And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce."

"I took the wren's nest;— Heaven forgive me! Its merry architects so small Had scarcely finished their wee hall, That, empty still, and neat and fair, Hung idly in the summer air."

"For the poor wren. The most diminutive of birds, will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl."

"I found a robin’s nest within our shed, And in the barn a wren has young ones bred; I never take away their nest, nor try To catch the old ones, lest a friend should die. Dick took a wren’s nest from his cottage-side, And ere a twelvemonth past his mother died."

"Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care, Is none that with the little wren's In snugness may compare."