19 February 2010

On Having Mis-Identified a Wild Flower

A thrush, because I'd been wrong,
Burst rightly into song
In a world not vague, not lonely,
Not governed by me only.

Richard Wilbur
New and Collected Poems
(San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988)
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