Papa Sparrow

"...the beautiful, striped sparrow,
serenely, on the tallest weed in his kingdom,
also sings without words."

-Mary Oliver from Thirst: Poems


"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn."

Henry David Thoreau


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