A Bird Came Down the Walk

A bird came down the walk: he did not know I saw; he bit an angleworm in halves and ate the fellow, raw, and then he drank a dew from a convenient grass,

and then hopped sidewise to the wall to let a beetle pass; he glanced with rapid eyes that hurried all around; —they looked like frightened beads, as if they sought for something, found,

I watched him for a minute and then withdrew my head, I guessing that he did not see me there,

and I concluded that he was not afraid.

• William Carlos Williams