A hiker approached the bent thorn;
The poet awaited, forlorn.
"The dewfall-hawk's tardy,"
Apologized Hardy.
"Sometimes he's delayed until morn."
Janet Millenson
Potomac, MD (Montgomery County)
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"Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot
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From: "Gail Frantz" <>
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Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 7:29 AM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Hardy and the Dewfall-hawk
| Anyone out there know which bird Thomas Hardy was referring to in,
| Afterwards, when he wrote:
|
| If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's soundless blink,
| The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades to alight
| Upon the wind-warped upland thorn, a gazer may think,
| 'To him this must have been a familiar sight.'
|
| Thanks,
|
| Gail Frantz
| Old Hanover Rd
| Reisterstown, MD
|
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