A hiker approached the bent thorn;

The poet awaited, forlorn.

"The dewfall-hawk's tardy,"

Apologized Hardy.

"Sometimes he's delayed until morn."





Janet Millenson
Potomac, MD (Montgomery County)

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"Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gail Frantz" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 7:29 AM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Hardy and the Dewfall-hawk


| Anyone out there know which bird Thomas Hardy was referring to in, 
| Afterwards, when he wrote:
| 
| If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's soundless blink,
|   The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades to alight
| Upon the wind-warped upland thorn, a gazer may think,
|   'To him this must have been a familiar sight.'
| 
| Thanks,
| 
| Gail Frantz 
| Old Hanover Rd
| Reisterstown, MD
| 
| 
| 
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