<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h3 class="ydpfbac943apost-title ydpfbac943aentry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(250, 254, 253);"><font size="4" class="">The Fawn</font></h3><div class="ydpfbac943apost-header" style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 254, 253);"><div class="ydpfbac943apost-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="ydpfbac943apost-body ydpfbac943aentry-content" id="ydpfbac943apost-body-614810634965507194" style="width: 938px; position: relative; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 254, 253);"> <br class="">Sunday morning and mellow as precious metal<br class="">The church bells rang, but I went<br class="">To the woods instead.<br class=""><br class="">A fawn, too new<br class="">For fear, rose from the grass<br class="">And stood with its spots blazing,<br class="">And knowing no way but words,<br class="">No trick but music,<br class="">I sang to him.<br class=""><br class="">He listened.<br class="">His small hooves struck the grass.<br class="">Oh what is holiness?<br class=""><br class="">The fawn came closer,<br class="">Walked to my hands, to my knees.<br class=""><br class="">I did not touch him.<br class="">I only sang, and when the doe came back<br class="">Calling out to him dolefully<br class="">And he turned and followed her into the trees,<br class="">Still I sang,<br class="">Not knowing how to end such a joyful text,<br class=""><br class="">Until far off the bells once more tipped and tumbled<br class="">And rang through the morning, announcing<br class="">The going forth of the blessed.<br class=""><br class=""> - Mary Oliver</div></div></body></html>