<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Sabbaths VI </span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">(for Jonathan Williams)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">The yellow-throated, the highest remotest voice</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">of this place, sings in the tops of the tallest sycamores,</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">but one day he came twice to the railing of my porch</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">where I sat at work above the river. He was too close</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">to see with binoculars. Only the naked eye could take him in,</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">a bird more beautiful than every picture of himself,</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">more beautiful than himself killed and preserved</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">by the most skilled taxidermist, more beautiful</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">than any human mind, so small and inexact</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">could hope to remember. My mind became</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">beautiful by the sight of him. He had the beauty only</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">of himself alive in the only moment of his life.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">He had upon him like a light the whole</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">beauty of the living world that never dies.</span></p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Wendell Berry</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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