The Reminder

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Title:     The Reminder
Author: Thomas Hardy [More Titles by Hardy]

I

While I watch the Christmas blaze
Paint the room with ruddy rays,
Something makes my vision glide
To the frosty scene outside.

There, to reach a rotting berry,
Toils a thrush,--constrained to very
Dregs of food by sharp distress,
Taking such with thankfulness.

Why, O starving bird, when I
One day's joy would justify,
And put misery out of view,
Do you make me notice you!

[The end]
Thomas Hardy's poem: Reminder

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