Sammy Seeds

To A Squirrel
At Kyle-Na-No by William Butler Yeats

Come play with me;
Why should you run
Through the shaking tree
As though I'd a gun
To strike you dead?
When all I would do
Is to scratch your head
And let you go.


The Eastern Gray Squirrel, scatter hoarder, plunderer of bird feeders, clever and relentless with a prodigious appetite. On the animal Most Wanted List for numerous and unspeakable birdseed crimes. A backyard menace.