The Robin 我的最愛

I never saw a Robin until one day I received a Christmas card from my boyfriend. A lovely robin was printed on the card. Since then, I started to search what the little bird is about. When I sat in front of window for my study, sometimes, real robins would stand on the bird-table in my garden. I was excited to see them and not to study anymore and enjoyed watching their every movement, particularly interested in their red breasts. In legend, the robin so ‘loves mankind both live and dead’ that it can never leave a corpse unburied. This idea is echoed in the lyrics of an old English ballad, the babes in the wood.