The Skylark

                                         
The skylark heralded the morning sun with a beautiful high pitched song
in the sweet green meadow grass down below his mate knew something was wrong
She was sharp And alert and ready for action when she heard him begin to sing
She left her nest and her clutch of eggs and was feigning a broken wing

She began to circle round and round heading away from her nest
Dragging her wing along the ground her performance a serious test
All of the time she was cautious and wary looking out for the imminent danger
Then all of a sudden a few feet away appeared a conspicuous stranger

A very tall man with a dog on a lead it was sniffing about on the ground
With her pitiful cry and her unbroken wing she was able to turn them around
She maneuvered the meddlers away from her nest the dog straining and pulling the man
When it got really close she shot up in the air having hatched her necessitous plan

She kept Plunging and swooping and goading the dog till the nest was a distance away
The dog started panting his tongue hanging out the man just looked on in dismay
She'd led them away from her treasured assemblage her cunning averting the danger
But She still hovered there and was fully aware of the dog and the very tall stranger