Ducks to cheer you up

A swan admiring his reflection

Whenever I need  cheering up I think of something amusing. Frederick William Harvey  (1888-1957) wrote this wonderful poem about ducks , they must have cheered him up too. He was known as the poet laureate of Gloucestershire. This is just the first verse.

From troubles of the world

I turn to ducks,

Beautiful comic things

Sleeping or curled

Their heads beneath white wings

By water cool,

Or finding curious things

To eat in various mucks

Beneath the pool,

Tails uppermost, or waddling

Sailor-like on the shores

Of ponds, or paddling

- Left! Right - with fanlike feet

What is he looking for?