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I feel like that bedraggled, aging thrush of Hardy’s poem, who believes in hope in a world that is a rather dark place, then and now. Or who simply does what nature requires, doing what’s needed for survival, equipped for that with instincts that aim at continuity and consequently inspiring hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope it shall be, then, during a celebration of same that is called Christmas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Darkling Thrush<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

BY THOMAS HARDY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I leant upon a coppice gate
      When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter’s dregs made desolate
      The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
      Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
      Had sought their household fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The land’s sharp features seemed to be
      The Century’s corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
      The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
      Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
      Seemed fervourless as I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At once a voice arose among
      The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
      Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
      In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
      Upon the growing gloom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So little cause for carolings
      Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
      Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
      His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
      And I was unaware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photographs of owls, sparrow and finches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now where do I find my blast-beruffled plume? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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