Browning's Shorter Poems

—­Then the tune, for which quails on the cornland will each leave his mate
To fly after the player; then, what makes the crickets elate
Till for boldness they fight one another:  and then, what has weight
To set the quick jerboa a-musing outside his sand house—­
There are none such as he for a wonder, half bird and half mouse! 
God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear,
To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here.