A Little Bird I Am

By Louisa May Alcott

"A little bird I am,

    Shut from the fields of air,

    And in my cage I sit and sing

    To Him who placed me there:

    Well pleased a prisoner to be,

    Because, my God, it pleases Thee!

    "Naught have I else to do;

    I sing the whole day long;

    And He whom most I love to please

    Doth listen to my song,

    He caught and bound my wandering wing,

    But still He bends to hear me sing."