The Fair Girl and the Black Egret

In a river marsh, where pondweeds and cattails grew in warm clime, the fair girl found a tall, black egret with whom she could have a chat; and was it the same one that her parents rescued from the wild? Among bulrushes taller than she actually was, the anxious girl told that bird one of her wishes: to hop on his back and fly as the happiest butterfly, and find her mom whom she remembered singing a lullaby. " Take me to my mom!" she begged the wading bird. " Nobody ever takes me there to visit her" she exclaimed. " She may be miles away from here...way past the blue ocean!" He replied with little confidence, lacking a sense of emotion. The fair girl kept on begging, until the black egret finally nodded. " Thank you, kind bird...now let's fly and depart from this marshland!" So the two of them ventured into a cloudy sky expecting no rainfall... not until they had gotten there safely and heard that sweet mother's call..