A Single Sparrow single work   poetry   "I think a lot about that bird"
  • Author:agent Geoff Page http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/page-geoff
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 A Single Sparrow
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  • Epigraph: The present life of man, O king, seems to me like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter, with your commanders and ministers, and a good fire in the midst, whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door, and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry storm; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, into the dark winter from which he had emerged. —Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica, 731

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    y separately published work icon Quadrant vol. 62 no. 5 May 2018 21287832 2018 periodical issue 2018 pg. 7
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