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Health of nature’s furnishing

Health of nature’s furnishing

There is health in thy gray wing,
Health of nature’s furnishing.
Say, thou modern-winged antique,
Was thy mistress ever sick?
In each heaving of thy wing
Thou dost health and leisure bring,
Thou dost waive disease and pain
And resume new life again.

—Henry David Thoreau, “To a Marsh Hawk in Spring”

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Greetings on this first Sunday of Spring!