unscared

I rose from the thanksgiving—took a resolve—and lay down, unscared, enlightened—eager but for the daylight.

Ask for a brave soul unscared by death....

The shrinking quail whistled in his garden shrubbery, and fed, unscared, in his carriage-way.

Pretty girls got up early, made the sign of the Cross, and, unscared by devils, tripped across the dewy meadows to Communion.

The unscared fox prowls above them in curious exploration of the desolate shanty, where wood-mice are domiciled and to whose sunny side the partridge comes to bask; the woodpecker taps unbidden to enter or departs from the always open door; and under the stars that glitter through the net of branches the owl perches on the snowy ridge and mopes in undisturbed solemnity.