Explore "The Reminder" by Thomas Hardy on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
WHILE I watch the Christmas blaze / Paint the room with ruddy rays, / Something makes my vision glide / To the frosty scene outside.
There, to reach a rotting berry, / Toils a thrush,-constrained to very / Dregs of food by sharp distress, / Taking such with thankfulness.
Why, O starving bird, when I / One day's joy would justify, / And put misery out of view, / Do you make me notice you!