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rusty_armor
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 Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:55 am Post subject: Freezing Sparrow |
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I hope I don't butcher this to much. But I am trying to find the quote and the author.
"I watched a sparrow freezing to death this morning,
Huddled on a limb against the bitter cold
Yet the word “unfair” never entered into his mind."
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Phaedrus
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:20 am Post subject: |
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I couldn't find the one you quoted but it brings to mind the poem, Self Pity, by D.H. Lawrence:
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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rusty_armor
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| Phaedrus wrote: | I couldn't find the one you quoted but it brings to mind the poem, Self Pity, by D.H. Lawrence:
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself. |
Thank you so very much! I suspect that the quote I remember drew from this. D.H. certainly said it better . . .
~ Rusty
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