A robin I feel I know well looked my way when I walked out the front door into the sharp winter sunshine. A robin I feel I know well looked my way when I walked out the front door into the sharp winter sunshine. He cried out for the tiny bird with the red splash on its breast: "A robin redbreast in a cage/Puts all heaven in a rage." And Michael Drayton in The Owl (1604) wrote: "Covering with moss the dead's unclosed eye the little redbreast teacheth charity." The 16th-century saga Who Killed Cock Robin?

Source: Irish Independent January 21, 2018 21:33 UTC