Bai Juyi reckons the worth of animals

And finds them precious

Birds
Bai Juyi

Don’t think these feathered lives have lesser worth,
They’re flesh and skin and bone like any other.
Sir, hold your shot against that treetop perch,
Her children in the nest expect their mother.

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白居易  鸟

谁道群生性命微？一般骨肉一般皮。

劝君莫打枝头鸟，子在巢中望母归。