Until I Saw the Sea
by Lilian Moore
Until I saw the sea
I did not know that wind could wrinkle water so.
I never knew that sun could splinter a whole sea of blue.
Nor did I know before, a sea breathes in and out upon a shore.
The Sea
author unknown
Behold the wonders of the mighty deep, Where crabs and lobsters learn to
creep, And little fishes learn to swim, And clumsy sailors tumble in.
Sea Gull
by Elizabeth Coatsworth
The sea gull curves his wings, the sea gull turns his eyes.
Get down into the water, fish!
(if you are wise.)
The sea gull slants his wings, the sea gull turns his head.
Get deep into the water, fish!
(or you’ll be dead.)
Hurt No Living Thing
by Christina Rossetti
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.
Onto a boy’s arm came a mosquito “Don’t hit! Don’t hit!” it hummed,
“Grandchildren have I to sing to.” “Imagine,” the boy said, “So small
and yet a grandfather.” an Eastern Eskimo song
Because I am poor,
I pray for every living creature. a Kiowa Indian song
The Frog
by Hilaire Belloc
Be kind and tender to the Frog, And do not call him names, As “Slimy
skin,” or “Polly-wog,”
Or likewise “Ugly James,”
Or “Gape-a-grin,” or “Toad-gone-wrong,”
Or “Billy Bandy-knees”:
The Frog is justly sensitive
To epithets like these.
No animal will more repay
A treatment kind and fair;
At least so lonely people say Who keep a frog (and, by the way, They are
extremely rare).
