The friendly beasts Jesus our brother, kind and good Was humbly born in a stable rude And the friendly beasts around Him stood, Jesus our brother, kind and good. "I," said the donkey, shaggy and brown, "I carried His mother up hill...Carols
A bandicoot is lovely to his parents; a mule is pretty to its mate.Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about parents
The robin and the wren are God's cock and hen; the martin and the swallow are God's mate and marrow.Proverbs and old sayings about god