Please tell me the summary of the field mouse poem by Cecil Frances Alexander
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This poem is based on a field mouse, which has a soft fur and round eyes and moves through the long grass when the acorn or oak nut fruit and berry fall on the ground. The mouse is seen at this time as it comes out of its hole to eat the fruit.
In the second stanza, the poet asks the mouse what it does during winter season, hiding in its hole. The mouse is only seen during summers, peeping from the hole, on the trees. The mouse comes out to feed on the fruits of the trees.
In the third stanza, the poet requests the mouse not to eat the grains that farmers grow by working hard. he requests the mouse to eat only the fruits that are fallen on the ground.
in the fourth stanza, poet again requests the mouse to make hole ( the place where mouse lives) under the tall oak tree and not in the house or near the stored grains, and in this way, nobody would harm mouse.
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The poet tells the field mouse not to go to the barn where the farmer has kept his crops. The field mouse looks from behind a tree and when the fruit falls from the tree the mouse goes fast and starts nibbling the fruits. It makes its resting place at the places which are moss-ridden, and the poet tells it to play in the sunny meadow but not to destroy the food grains of the farmer.