Vol. 2. / 205.) A Child Questions How . . .

How did the first sparrow learn to fly?

Because how could it learn if it had no mother?

If it had a mother, from where did she come

Being as she, was the very first sparrow?

How did the first migratory birds, first find

Their first, and perfect, far distant home?

Who told them where it was because

They had no parents?

Or else, from where did the first parents come?

How did the first bird know it would have babies?

How could the first bird know, to build a nest?

Who told it, why it needed it?

Or, how did it know, that it needed one?

Or, was the nest already there, and built

Before the first bird?

If it was, how did it get there? Who put it there?

How did the first bird get its colours?

Who was it, told it, what colours it should be?

And from where did, colour, in the first place come from?

And, truly, what was it? Tell me if you know---

Have you seen? Were you there? If you weren’t then tell me

How do you know? Who will you believe, if

They weren’t there, either?

Will you trust in the infallibility of those you believe?

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