"The robin and the wren Are God’s cock and hen; The martin and the swallow Are God’s mate and marrow."
— European robin

January 1, 1970

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Anonymous, from a Cheshire Glossary, quoted in Robert Fletcher, "Myths of the Robin Redbreast in Early English Poetry", The American Anthropologist, vol. 2, no. 2 (April 1889), p. 100, Another form is:The robin and the wren Are God Almighty’s cock and hen: Him that harries their nest Never shall his soul have rest.