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1 " Many people are seeking, at this very moment, to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eider-down pillow. But she has no great tenderness, even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later, --oftener sooner than late,-- is apt to fling off her nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows. "
― Nathaniel Hawthorne , The Scarlet Letter
2 " This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly "
― Thomas Hardy , The Complete Poems
