“Call for the Robin Redbreast and the Wren” - John Webster (ca. 1580-ca. 1632)

Call for the Robin Redbreast and the Wren, Since o’er shadie groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers doe cover The friendlesse bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funerall Dole The Ante, the field-mouse, and the mole To reare him hillockes, that shall keepe him warme, And (when gay tombes are robb’d) sustaine no harme, But keepe the wolfe far thence, that’s foe to men, For with his nailes he’ll dig them up agen.

European Robin, Ferdinand von Wright, 1830