<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521661" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Confrontation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The angry sparrow, narrow and light<br>fiercely pursued the thieving crow<br>slender beak stabbing<br>smooth black feathers, <br>rising and diving, <br>rolling and turning, <br>a vicious top-gun <br>dog-fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the crow, tired of torment, <br>set heavily down on the high lamp post<br>as the small bird circled, crying invective, <br>taunting the crow to rise again and fight! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but the old crow, patient and wise<br>settled comfortably for this shrill siege<br>and calmly waited for the air-show to end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Finally, exhausted, <br>the sparrow gave up, <br>but claiming victory, <br>like Odysseus <br>nearly home <br>at last, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">became Homer, <br>and composed his own<br>epic poem<br>of the fierce <br>midnight raven, <br>homewrecker <br>wrought low, <br>driven down<br>into death’s <br>bitter dust, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">which, of course, he sang <br>in heroic, <br>avian meter <br>to his faithful, <br>Penelope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Federle">Steven Federle</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=521661" data-title="The Confrontation de Steven Federle" data-description="The angry sparrow, narrow and light fiercely pursued the thieving crow slender beak stabbing smooth black feathers, rising and diving, rolling and turning, a vicious top-gun dog-fight. Then the crow, tired of torment, set heavily down on the..."></div> </div> </div>

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