狄金森作。小鸟沿径而下，啄食蚯蚓，啜饮露珠，侧身让路于甲虫。见人惊惶，展翅归去，轻捷如桨划海面，如蝴蝶跃过正午。以家常之眼写造化之妙，收束处尤为神逸。
A BIRD came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.
And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad,—
They looked like frightened beads, I thought
He stirred his velvet head
Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home
Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, plashless, as they swim.