Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light of leap,
Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat,
Nor harmless worms that creep.
More verses by Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Consider The Lilies Of The Field
- Death’s Chill Between
- The Hour And The Ghost
- Memory
- Brown And Furry