"Where is the bird?" said Lou.
"I am the bird," a bird said.
"And I am big and blue.
And I can fly and feed myself
And hop around and sing."
"And once you were an egg," said Lou.
"And couldn't do a thing."
The bird flew up and over,
Where Bear and Louis sat.
"An egg?" she said. "I was an egg?
I don't remember that."
"As Spring turns into Summer,
And Summer turns to Fall,
Everyone who grows," said Bear
"Forgets that they were small.
And some forget a little,
And some forget a lot."
And Louis said, "Oh really Bear?
I know that I shall not" .......
...from "The Bear who Saw the Spring" Karla Kuskin, 1961
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