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Still, still with Thee when purple morning breaketh, 
     When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee,
Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,
     Dawns the sweet consciousness, I am with Thee.

—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Christian
Science Hymnal, Hymn No. 317, adapt. © CSBD

Photograph by Scott Cummins
Santa Barbara, California, US 

A young Western Bluebird

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