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Varied Thrush (Zoothera naevia) (male), Skagit Wildlife Area: photo by Walter Siegmund, 15 January 2007
On longer evenings,
Light, chill and yellow,
Bathes the serene
Foreheads of houses.
A thrush sings,
Laurel-surrounded
In the deep bare garden,
Its fresh-peeled voice
Astonishing the brickwork.
It will be spring soon,
It will be spring soon --
And I, whose childhood
Is a forgotten boredom,
Feel like a child
Who comes on a scene
Of adult reconciling,
And can understand nothing
But the unusual laughter,
And starts to be happy.
Varied Thrush (Zoothera naevia) (male), Black Creek, Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia: photo by Elaine R. Wilson, 2011
Varied Thrush (Zoothera naevia) (male), Black Creek, Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia: photo by Elaine R. Wilson, 2011
Varied Thrush (male), Black Creek, Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia: photo by Elaine R. Wilson, 2011
Varied Thrush (Zoothera naevia) (male), Skagit Wildlife Area: photo by Walter Siegmund, 2006
Philip Larkin: Coming, 25 February 1950, from XX Poems, 1951
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