"Very lovely, he thought,
are the sudden moments of relief
that come in the midst of strain,
those moments of forgetfulness when
we are 'teased out of thought' by
a bird or a flower or the sight of old roofs in the sun;
lovely though so transient,
the reversal of those brief moments
that visit us even in
the midst of joy."
from
A City Of Bells
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the bluebird fledgling revived
