<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460829" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0398 The Blackbird's Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Waking to the blackbird's song -<br>insisting, so it seems, on something close to joy and praise...<br>the sun's just breaking through the morning mist; <br>the smell of coffee and hot bread rolls, <br>the gentle stir of household come to life: <br>it's a good day, the best of days, right now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Showered, with the inner glow of a man who's<br>just those few and precious minutes ahead of schedule<br>and thus with goodwill there to share -<br>and what? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is goodwill quite enough, as you bounce into the office, <br>or (o hero) into the morning classroom, or<br>the matey pride of factory floor? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the tricky crux of this poem, and who am I...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">now in this summer morning's glow of goodwill to all men<br>- and to all womankind, rejoicing themselves and you<br>in summer's clothes - is there a place<br>within this glow, for, go on say it, joy? <br>And if joy, is there, then, gratitude? <br>And if there's gratitude, is there, then, praise? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meanwhile<br>the blackbird<br>just sings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460829" data-title="0398 The Blackbird's Song de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Waking to the blackbird's song - insisting, so it seems, on something close to joy and praise... the sun's just breaking through the morning mist; the smell of coffee and hot bread rolls, the gentle stir of household come to life: it's a good d..."></div> </div> </div>

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